This volume emerged from an international symposium held in 1999 in Japan, and represents the current research in the areas of contact, convergence and typology in South Asian languages. It covers: syntactic, morphological and phonological typology; issues relating to typology and convergence; the origin, emergence, or loss of a specific feature of construction in course of time; the notion and significance of 'linguistic area' and the interplay of typological and genetic factors in determining the South Asian language area; morphological diversity and borrowing in South Asia; creolization in morpho-syntax and code mixing in contact situations.
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