This course will begin by examining some of the basic findings on
bilingualism:  definitions, typologies of bilingualism, issues of
bilingualism and the human brain, and issues of bilingual or
multilingual speech communities.  Then we will turn our attention to
the typology of contact situations and to the linguistic
consequences of language contact (the coexisting of more than one
language in a speech community for a prolonged period of time),
including language maintenance, language shift and language death;
pidginization and creolization; language intertwining or the
creation of so-called mixed languages such as Michif, Ma'a, and
Media Lengua; lexical borrowing, codeswitching, and grammatical
borrowing including calquing or replication.  We will become
familiar with the major researchers in the field of language contact
starting with Weinreich and Haugen and including more recent work
done by Thomason and Kaufman, van Coetsem, Bakker and Mous, Myers-
Scotton, Dorian, Winford, and many others.