Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Oceano vox: You never know where a ship comes from 15
5. Language contact and billingualism in Flensburg in the middle of the 19th century 35
6. Written and spoken languages in Bergen in the Hanse era 61
7. Vyborg 85
8. Dialect and language contacts on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 15th century until 1939 105
9. Swedish and Swedish 145
10. Did Latin influence German word order? 173
11. From unity to diversity in Romance syntax 201
12. Sardinian between maintenance and change 235
13. Language contact and Maltese intonation 261
14. Index 285