I-IV -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- 5.1 Overview -- Representations of Romance: contact, bilingualism and diglossia -- Language conflict in Romance: decline, death and survival -- Standardization in Romance -- 5.2 Romance : Romance bilingualism in Europe -- Galician and Castilian in contact: historical, social, and linguistic aspects -- Catalan : Castilian -- Occitan : French -- Bilingualism and language conflict in Rhaeto-Romance -- Language contact and Corsican polynomia -- Sardinian : Italian -- Italian and Italian dialects: An overview of recent studies -- Balkan Romance : Rumanian -- 5.3 Romance : Romance bilingualism outside Europe -- Québécois French and language issues in Quebec -- Bilingualism and linguistic conflict in (French) Creole-speaking societies -- Creole Spanish and Afro-Hispanic -- Portuguese and/or 'fronterizo' in northern Uruguay -- Aspects of Creole : Portuguese bilingualism and linguistic conflict -- 5.4 Second language acquisition by immigrants -- Second language acquisition by migrants in Europe -- The acquisition of Romance by speakers of a Romance variety in North America -- The acquisition of a second Romance language by immigrants in Latin America -- Subject Index -- Index of Languages -- Index of Authors