Frontmatter -- Contents -- Romancisation worldwide -- Loanword typology: Steps toward a systematic -- cross-linguistic study of lexical borrowability -- Modelling contact-induced change in grammar -- Loan verbs in a typological perspective -- Why we need dynamic models for sociolinguistics and -- language contact studies -- Constructivist theory of language contact and the -- Romancisation of indigenous languages -- Spanish meets Guaraní, Otomí and Quichua: A -- multilingual confrontation -- French influence on the native languages of Canada -- and adjacent USA -- Portuguese influence on Kulina -- Creolization and the fate of inflections -- Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic -- languages -- Contact-induced changes in Amerindian languages of -- French Guiana -- A case of weak Romancisation: Italian in East -- Africa -- Loan word gender: A case of romancisation in -- Standard German and related enclave varieties -- Backmatter