1. Introduction 2. Part I. Challenges to accepted views of convergence and divergence in language contact situations 3. Divergence, convergence, contact: Challenges for the genealogical classification of languages (by Bossong, Georg) 4. Increases in complexity as a result of language contact (by Dahl, Osten) 5. Converging genetically related languages: Endstation code mixing? (by Braunmuller, Kurt) 6. Part II. Convergence and divergence in different varieties in oral and written discourse 7. Converging languages, diverging varieties: Innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish (by Hoder, Steffen) 8. Converging verbal phrases in related languages: A case study from Faro-Danish and Danish-German language contact situations (by Kuhl, Karoline) 9. Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation (by Becher, Viktor) 10. On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations (by Vann, Robert E.) 11. Part III. Phonological processes of variation and change in bilingual individuals 12. Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish (by Cortes, Susana) 13. Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German, monolingual Spanish and bilingual German-Spanish children (by Arias, Javier) 14. Author index 15. Subject index
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