Language contact in times of globalization

The editors: Preface Rogier Blokland and Michael Riessler: Komi-Saami-Russian Contacts on the Kola Peninsula Martine Bruil: The Emergence of Future Converbs in Imbabura Quichua: Pre-Hispanic Language Contact as a Possible Explanation Louise-Amelie Cougnon: Tu Te Prends pour the King of the World? Language Contact in Text Messaging Context Anissa Daoudi: Globalisation, E-Arabic: The Emergence of a New Language at the Litaral and Figurative Levels Santeri Junttila: A Collection of Forgotten Etymologies: Revisiting the Most Improbable Baltic Loanwords in Finnic Janneke Kalsbeek: Contact-induced Innovations in Istrian Cakavian Dialects Folke Muller and Susan Schlotthauer: Estonian and German Verb-Particle Combinations and Argument Restructuring Johanna Nichols: Forerunners to Globalization: The Eurasian Steppe and Its Periphery Pekka Sammallahti: From Africa to the Arctic - Expansions, Bottlenecks and Contacts in the Linguistic Prehistory of the Saami Peter Schrijver: The High German Consonant Shift and Language Contact Remco van Pareren: Areal Features in the Volga-Kama Region: On Some Non-lexical Turkic Influences in Mordvin Willem Vermeer: Retrieving Diluted Evidence for Substratal Effects: Some Examples