Preface ....................................................... vii
Mohand Tilmatine
Arabization and linguistic domination: Berber and Arabic
in the North of Africa ....................................... 1
Mauro Tosco
Arabic, and a few good words about empires (but not all of
them) ....................................................... 17
Kees Versteegh
An empire of learning: Arabic as a global language .......... 41
Picus S. Ding
Chinese influence on Vietnamese: A Sinospheric tale ......... 55
Dónall Ó Riagáin
Cracks in the foundation of a language empire -
the resurgence of autochthonous lesser used languages in
the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland ..................... 77
Alejandra Vidal and Imme Kuchenbrandt
Challenges of linguistic diversity in Formosa ............... 89
Gregory D.S. Anderson
Russian colonialism and hegemony and Native Siberian
languages .................................................. 113
Tamara Borgoiakova
Language policies and language loyalties after twenty
years in post-Soviet Russia: The case of Khakassia ......... 141
Ekaterina Gruzdeva
Sociolinguistic and linguistic outcomes of Nivkh-Russian
language contact ........................................... 153
Françoise Guérin
The evolution of Chechen in asymmetrical contact with
Russian .................................................... 183
Boglárka Janurik
The emergence of gender agreement in code-switched verbal
constructions in Erzya-Russian bilingual discourse ......... 199
Inna Kaysina
Grammatical effects of Russian-Udmurt language contact ..... 219
Zsuzsa Salánki
The bilingualism of Finno-Ugric language speakers in the
Volga Federal district ..................................... 237
Erzhen Khilkhanova
Subjective factors of language vitality: Language
attitudes of the Buryat ethnic group ....................... 265
Nataliya Levkovych
On the linguistic behavior of immigrants from the
post-Soviet countries in Germany ........................... 285
Diana Lindner
Collective beliefs of the mixed speech speaker in Belarus .. 299
Thomas Menzel
Belarusian vs. Russian, regularity vs. irregularity in
adjective and adverb comparison of mixed speech in
Belarus .................................................... 319
Anastassia Zabrodskaja
Post-Soviet Estonian-Russian language contact: Transfer and
convergence in Estonian Russian ............................ 353
Index of Authors .............................................. 381
index of Languages ............................................ 386
Index of Subjects ............................................. 389
Literature .................................................... 392
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