The author presents a clear picture of the structural history of the Romance language known as Vegliote and illustrates the applicability of structural linguistics to a diachronic study of many stages.

The papers in this collection throw fresh light on the relation between language contact and contrastive linguistics. The book focuses equally on the mutual influence of linguistic systems in contact and on the language contrasts that govern the linguistic behaviour of the bilingual speaker.

Abstracts of dissertations and monographs in microform.