Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Contact-related variation and change - crossing the boundaries within and between languages -- Chapter 2 Language contact and language attrition: Processes and constellations -- Chapter 3 Two modes of contact-induced change in minority languages: Phonology and syntax vs. inflectional morphology -- Chapter 4 Variation and change in comparative structures as an interaction of language internal and language external factors: Evidence from Asia Minor Greek -- Chapter 5 Linguistic reconstruction and creole emergence: The case of Upper Guinea creoles -- Chapter 6 Language contact and expressives in Italian -- Chapter 7 Digital code play as a sign of the multicompetent self in the internet discourse of Russian speakers in Italy -- Chapter 8 Sociolinguistic typology and language contact in Northern Italy -- Chapter 9 Dialect contact and koineization in Italy -- Chapter 10 Sociolinguistic norms on the usage of Italian within refugee centres in Italy -- Subject index