Von der Entlehnung über das Codemeshing bis zum Translanguaging: Prozesse, Ergebnisse und Folgen von Sprachkontakt

This article presents, as a form of opening and outline of problems for the journal issue “Language Contacts/Sprachkontakte”, a synthesized research report concerning processes, results, and consequences of language contact. It systematically summarizes, describes, and interprets research directions, concepts and results of the canonical works of contact linguistics as well as modern, e.g. poststructuralist research. Furthermore, this article serves as a form of think piece that strives to provide impulses for future research. At the center of the description stand the consequences of language contact as a) current results of language contact (e.g. code-switching) and b) specific traces of language contact within a language system that start synchronically but are also diachronically describable (e.g. borrowing).