China’s external economic relations during the Mao era;

7. The Balkans; 8. The amazon basin: linguistic areas and language contact; 9. Migration and trade as drivers of language spread and contact in indigenous Latin America; 10. Language contact in South Asia; Part III. Language Spread: 11. The geographic and demographic expansion of Malay; 12. Geographic and demographic spread of Swahili; 13. Arabic language contact; Part IV. Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages: 14. The emergence and evolution of romance languages in Europe and the Americas; 15. The expansion and evolution of Portuguese; 16. French and English in contact in North America; 17. French in African contact settings; 18. The geographical and demographic expansion of English; Part V. Language Diasporas: 19. Diasporas: an overview; 20. Labor migrations: language change in communities and Diasporas; 21. The Korean diaspora; 22. The Chinese diaspora: language maintenance and loss; 23. The diachrony of Yiddish and judaeo-spanish as contact languages; Author index; Subject index.

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