Usage-Based Approaches to Multilingualism - Language Acquisition, Language Contact, Multilingual Language Use

Usage-based linguistics has become one of the most influential approaches in the language sciences. The contributions to this volume explore how usage-based perspectives can be applied to multilingual scenarios and their outcomes by investigating the interplay of input, output, and social factors. On the one hand, the volume tackles methodological and data-oriented issues relating to multilingualism. On the other hand, it elaborates on theoretical questions of how to model multilingual language scenarios and how those feed back into a usage-based account of language learning and use in general.