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Il recente libro di Lorenzo Tomasin, Europa Romanza (2021), ha avuto il merito rinnovare gli studi sul contatto linguistico, privilegiando testi di consumo e scritti di carattere privato (realizzati tra Medioevo e Rinascimento) in cui si faceva prova di un più o meno consapevole plurilinguismo. Tomasin ha contribuito a «inquadrare il multilinguismo della società e il plurilinguismo degli individui come caratteri fondanti della cultura europea nel suo insieme». Convergenze plurilingui ha raccolto da Europa Romanza l'invito a riflettere su una «costituzione della coscienza linguistica attraverso il confronto e l'incrocio delle esperienze culturali». I lavori di questo volume continuano infatti, idealmente, le sette storie raccontate da Tomasin, tentando di contribuire alla definizione del fenomeno plurilingue. Il plurilinguismo, inteso come intersezione tra diversi volgari o diverse varianti di una stessa lingua, si rivela essere il segno di una funzione culturale e, in alcuni casi, anche una marca di genere testuale. Questo volume è dunque destinato ai linguisti interessati tanto alla formazione delle lingue in contesto europeo quanto al plurilinguismo in chiave storica. The concepts of "plurilinguism" and "multilingualism" are normally used in studies dealing with current linguistic realities observed in communities of speakers. This volume collects eleven essays which apply these categories to historical settings, spanning a period from the Middle Ages until the late Renaissance. It demonstrates that contacts between languages have, for centuries, characterized and shaped the linguistic realities of Europe.

Multilingualism. --- contact linguistics. --- historical linguistics.

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Die Eckdaten 711 und 1492 umrahmen machtpolitisch gesehen die Zeit maurischer Präsenz auf der Iberischen Halbinsel auf einem Territorium wechselnder Ausdehnung, das unter dem Namen al-Andalus bekannt ist. Der letztlich über mehr als acht Jahrhunderte währende Kontakt zwischen Orient und Okzident hatte für Spanien kulturelle und insbesondere auch sprachliche Auswirkungen, die bis in die Gegenwart reichen. So hat das Arabische nach dem lateinischen Fundus den größten Anteil am spanischen Wortschatz. Die Beschreibung des als arabisches Kulturadstrat charakterisierten Einflusses auf verschiedenen sprachlichen Ebenen ist Gegenstand des vorliegenden Arbeitsheftes. Das Arbeitsheft bietet vor dem Hintergrund des RA 41 von Gustav Ineichen (1997, Arabisch-orientalische Sprachkontakte in der Romania) einen Ausbau und die Vertiefung der Thematik für den spanischen Sprachbereich, der in der universitären Lehre mehr im Mittelpunkt steht. Damit schließt die Publikation eine Lücke im Bereich verfügbarer Materialien für den Unterricht, denn als Hinführung an die Gesamtthematik steht neben Abschnitten in den einschlägigen Sprachgeschichten auch heute lediglich der zentrale Aufsatz von Reinhold Kontzi (1982, "Das Zusammentreffen der arabischen Welt mit der romanischen und seine sprachlichen Folgen") zur Verfügung. Ein dem allgemeinen Verständnis förderlicher Aspekt liegt in dem Ansatz, die arabischen Einflüsse nicht allein im Hinblick auf das Spanische zu beschreiben, sondern auch bezüglich zugrunde liegender Strukturen zu beleuchten. The contact between the Orient and the Occident that took place in Spain over the course of eight centuries (711–1492) had a cultural and linguistic impact that stretches into the present day. This is why, after Latin, Arabic has had the biggest influence on Spanish vocabulary. This study aims to describe this influence, defined as a cultural adstrate, on different linguistic levels by taking into account the underlying structures.

Arabic Heritage. --- Contact Linguistics. --- Cultural Adstrate. --- Spanish.

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The series Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) aims to present a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of Romance linguistics. It will comprise approximately 60 volumes that can either be consulted individually or used as a series of books providing a detailed overall picture of the current state of research in Romance linguistics. A special focus will be placed on the presentation and analysis of the smaller languages, the linguae minores.

Africa. --- Contact Linguistics. --- Linguistic Variation. --- Postcolonial Linguistics. --- Africa

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This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches.

Croatian language --- Languages in contact. --- Foreign elements. --- Code-Switching. --- Contact Linguistics. --- Croatian Language. --- Morpho-Syntactic Change.

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This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier languages. With evidence from creole languages in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific, the book provides new perspectives on creole typology, cross-creole comparisons, and creole semantics. The book offers an introduction for newcomers to the fields of creole studies and phylogenetic analysis. Using these methods to analyse a variety of linguistic features, both structural and semantic, the book then turns to explore old and new questions and problems in creole studies. Original case studies explore the differences and similarities between creoles, and propose solutions to the problems of how to classify creoles and how they formed and developed. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the unity and heterogeneity of creoles and the areal influences on their development. It also provides metalinguistic discussions of the “creole” concept from different perspectives. Finally, the book reflects critically on the findings and methods, and sets new agendas for future studies. Creole Studies has been written for a broad readership of scholars and students in the fields of contact linguistics, biolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language typology, and semantics.

Creole dialects --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Theoretical linguistics --- Pidgin and Creole languages --- Contact linguistics --- Language typology --- Historical linguistics --- Physiological aspects. --- History.