This volume is a multidisciplinary contribution to Sephardic studies, including chapters by some of the best-known authorities in the field, interspersed with those of young scholars who have begun making their mark in current research.

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.

The contributions assembled in this volume are devoted to Trudel Meisenburg and address central aspects of her research: language contact, variation and change. The individual papers testify the growing interest in complex heterogeneous and hybrid language constellations and show the explanatory power of linguistic theories which account for contact-induced variability in empirical data. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes sind Trudel Meisenburg gewidmet und gruppieren sich um die zentralen Themen ihrer Forschung: Sprachkontakt, Variation und Wandel. Die Beiträge bezeugen das neue Interesse für komplexe heterogene und hybride sprachliche Situationen und zeigen die Leistungsfähigkeit einer für kontaktbedingte Variabilität offenen linguistischen Theoriebildung auf.

The contributions assembled in this volume are devoted to Trudel Meisenburg and address central aspects of her research: language contact, variation and change. The individual papers testify the growing interest in complex heterogeneous and hybrid language constellations and show the explanatory power of linguistic theories which account for contact-induced variability in empirical data. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes sind Trudel Meisenburg gewidmet und gruppieren sich um die zentralen Themen ihrer Forschung: Sprachkontakt, Variation und Wandel. Die Beiträge bezeugen das neue Interesse für komplexe heterogene und hybride sprachliche Situationen und zeigen die Leistungsfähigkeit einer für kontaktbedingte Variabilität offenen linguistischen Theoriebildung auf.