This course deals with language contact situations involving English and with language change induced by contact, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved. 

Aspects to be covered include:
- Different types of language contact situations in the history of English
- Lexical borrowing and the (phonological and morphological) integration of loanwords
- Group second language acquisition
- Code switching phenomena
- Bilingual mixed languages, English-based pidgin and creole formation.