%0 Book %A Linda Thornburg-Panther %A Janet M. Fuller %D 2021 %C New York, United States of America %I Peter Lang Verlag %T Studies in Contact Linguistics %B Essays in Honor of Glenn G. Gilbert %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102103 %X This state-of-the-art volume features fourteen contributions by internationally renowned scholars covering three areas of contact linguistics: (1) Creolistics, beginning with an essay on the rise of the meaning and use of the word criollo, followed by studies of linguistic features of African American English, bozal Spanish, and Afrikaans; (2) German language varieties spoken in different periods and regions of the United States; and (3) theoretical issues central to analyzing language contact phenomena. Fittingly, social factors figure prominently in these analyses of language structure, providing a comprehensive view of the issues and topics to which Glenn G. Gilbert has dedicated his professional life. %K Sprachkontakt, Aufsatzsammlung, Pidgin, Creole, Creolistic, Contact linguistic, German language in the U.S. %G English