The course is designed to introduce students to
various issues of language contact and its outcomes, as well as
the social and linguistic factors that regulate contact-induced changes with a cross-disciplinary perspective. The course aims
to cover a wide range of topics at the linguistic and at the societal level and survey current approaches to the major types of
contact-induced change. The course starts with how language contact is
defined and theorized and continue with concepts in language contact including
borrowing, code-switching, language change, contact and grammaticalization,
language shift, language attrition, language death and pidgin and creole
formation.