Journal of Language Contact

Robert Nicolaï (Docteur es Lettres en linguistique 1979, Alexander von Humboldt Research Award 1997, Membre Senior de l’Institut Universitaire de France 2004) is Emeritus Professor at the University of Nice. He is a specialist in the field of Songhay linguistics and published important studies on the Songhay dialects and sociolects. These studies led him to pose more general and theoretical questions concerning the methods and limits of the comparative-historical approach to languages without written historical sources and the theory of language change, enriching his ideas with new, unexpected and challenging reflections in the field of research cognition, sociolinguistics and epistemology.

Alexandra Aikhenvald (PhD 1984 in Linguistics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Doctor of Letters 2006, La Trobe University) is Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University. She has published extensively on area linguistics and language contact, and linguistic and cultural features of South America and New Guinea, in addition to several grammars of Arawak languages from Amazonia. She is the author of seminal monographs Classifiers, Evidentiality and Imperatives and commands, and has also published on other issues in linguistic typology.

Henning Schreiber (PhD 2006 in African Linguistics, University of Frankfurt) is Assistant Professor in African Linguistics at the University of Hamburg. He has worked on historical comparative linguistics, language typology and has done extensive field research in African sociolinguistics. His publications include a phonological reconstruction of Proto-Niger-Volta (Eastern Mande) and articles on language contact, social network sociolinguistics and areal linguistics.

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Editorial Board
Tucker Childs, Portland, USA
Françoise Gadet, Paris, France
Maarten Kossmann, Leiden, The Netherlands
Isabelle Léglise, Paris, France
Georges Lüdi, Basel, Switzerland
Yaron Matras, Manchester, United Kingdom
Marianne Mithun, Santa Barbara, USA
Annie Montaut, Paris, France
Maarten Mous, Leiden,The Netherlands
Salikoko Mufwene, Chicago, USA
Martine Vanhove, Paris, France
Rainer Vossen, Frankfurt, Germany
Donald Winford, Ohio, USA
Ghil`ad Zuckermann, Adelaide, Australia

Advisory Board
Bernard Comrie, Leipzig, Germany
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Boulder, USA
Jeffrey Heath, Michigan, USA
Bernd Heine, Cologne, Germany
Pieter Muysken, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Carol Myers-Scotton, Michigan, USA
Malcolm Ross, Canberra, Australia
Andrée Tabouret-Keller, Strasbourg, France
Sarah G. Thomason, Michigan, USA
Ekkehard Wolff, Leipzig, Germany
Petr Zima, Prague, Czech Republic