Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes

The research program pioneered by Carol Myers-Scotton plays an exceptionally important role in current linguistic scholarship... In sum, this book is not only a solid contribution to the exegesis of the Myers-Scotton research program as applied to language contact phenomena; its relevance to current work in a diversity of areas makes it highly recommended reading for anyone seriously interested in linguistics.
As a text it is very readable and its discourse style takes on a very candid and 'dialogue-like' character . . . This is a key text of the same importance as Thomason and Kaufman's (1988) seminal work Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
This book will provide an account of contact outcome theories, including the author's own. It will have coursebook potential for advanced undergraduates and graduates.
This is an important book ... Without doubt, anyone with a serious interest in contact linguistics will read this book with profit.
The new book of Myers-Scotton is one of the most important contributions to the study of codeswitching and language contacts that has been published in recent years both because of the width of issues discussed and theoretical depth of treating these issues.

Carol Myers-Scotton is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. She is a specialist in sociolinguistics and language contact phenomena with a special interest in East and Southern African linguistics. In 1993, she published two volumes on codeswitching, Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa, and Duelling Languages: Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching (both OUP). She has also edited a volume of essays on language and literature (OUP 1998) and has published a number of articles in her areas of interest.