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This book is a description of the lexical and structural features in the speech of speakers who have a common heritage language, Croatian. As a highly inflective language, Croatian offers excellent scope as a base language to examine instances of lexical insertion, alternation, mixing and structural innovation. The book presents Croatian in contact with five other languages across nine different countries.

This book is an innovative contribution to contact linguistics as it presents a rarely studied but sizeable diaspora language community in contact with seven other languages across twelve different countries with contributions following a coherent approach. Morpho-syntactic and lexical innovation, including code-switching, are the central focus of analysis. Presentation of morpho-syntactic and lexical forms goes beyond a descriptive-only one, ...