The Changing Languages of Europe

• Offers irrefutable evidence that the languages of Europe are in the process of unifying and shows how and why
• Key contribution to the booming field of language contact studies
• Written in nontechnical language
• Suitable for use as a text in language variation and sociolinguistics courses

Readership: Scholars and students of language change, language variation, European sociolinguistics, European society and languages. First-year students studying these subjects in departments of linguistics, sociology, anthropology, European social policy etc. General readers interested in language and language change.

Bernd Heine, University of Cologne, and Tania Kuteva, University of Dusseldorf

"This excellent monograph offers an insightful study in which European languages have influenced each other in their grammar...[a] richly documented and convinvingly argued book." - Edith Moravcsik, Studies in Language

1: Europe as a Linguistic Area
2: Grammatical Replication
3: The Rise of Articles
4: The Rise of Possessive Perfects
5: From Comitative to Instrumental Forms
6: From Question to Clause Subordination
7: Europe's Periphery
8: Conclusions
References
Glossary
Subject Index
List of Maps