So, within the large topic of Language Drift, I've chosen to focus
  somewhat on the effect of contact on language change and death (for
  obvious reasons). I've provided a large list of readings, but most
  are merely for interest.

<P><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/publiccs/Language Drift.ppt">Language Drift.ppt</A>

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<P><B>Required:</B>
<BR>Language Contact, Creolization and Genetic Linguistics
    -Contact-induced Language Change: An Analytic Framework -- Ch. 3
<BR><A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?id=b_6OMfZ1QpUC&lpg=PR13&ots=xmZgZICoMc&dq=thomason%20kaufman%20contact&lr&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false">
http://books.google.com/books?id=b_6OMfZ1QpUC&lpg=PR13&ots=xmZgZICoMc&dq=thomason%20kaufman%20contact&lr&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false</A>

<P>Late Modern Irish and the Dynamics of Language Change and Language Death
<BR><A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?id=VgBtaDT-evYC&lpg=PA1&ots=7XV1UuzEjW&dq=linguistic%20drift%20contact%20endangered&lr&pg=PA260#v=onepage&q&f=false">
http://books.google.com/books?id=VgBtaDT-evYC&lpg=PA1&ots=7XV1UuzEjW&dq=linguistic%20drift%20contact%20endangered&lr&pg=PA260#v=onepage&q&f=false</A>

<P>Milroy - Mobility, contact and language change -- working with contemporary speech communities
<BR><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/publiccs/SELDR//Milroy-Inrtoduction_mobility_contact_and_language_change.pdf">
Milroy-Introduction_mobility_contact_and_language_change.pdf</A>

<P>Hope - Rats, bats, sparrows and dogs: Biology, linguistics and the nature of Standard English
<BR><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/publiccs/SELDR//Hope_Biology Linguistics and Standard English.pdf">
Hope_Biology Linguistics and Standard English.pdf</A>

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<P><B>Recommended:</B>

<P>Chung - On the gradual nature of syntactic change
<BR><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/publiccs/SELDR//Chung_Gradual Nature of Syntactic Change - polynesian.pdf">
Chung_Gradual Nature of Syntactic Change - polynesian.pdf</A>

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<P><B>Interest Pieces:</B>

<P>Timberlake - Reanalysis and Actualization in Syntactic Change
<BR><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/publiccs/SELDR//Timberlake_Reanalysis and Actualization in Syntactic Change.pdf">
Timberlake_Reanalysis and Actualization in Syntactic Change.pdf</A>

<P>Larmouth - Differential Interference in American Finnish Cases
<BR><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/publiccs/SELDR//Larmouth_Differential Interference in American Finnish Cases.pdf">
Larmouth_Differential Interference in American Finnish Cases.pdf</A>

<P>Schilling-Estes - On the nature of isolated and post-isolated dialects: Innovation, variation and differentiation
<BR><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/publiccs/SELDR//Schilling-Estes_On_the_nature_of_isolated_and_post-isolated_dialects.pdf">
Schilling-Estes_On_the_nature_of_isolated_and_post-isolated_dialects.pdf</A>

<P>Language Decay and contact-induced change: Similarities and differences
<BR><A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?id=iKHOeLDvUVgC&lpg=PA7&ots=NRIss5cRr9&dq=linguistic%20drift%20in%20endangered%20languages&lr&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false">
http://books.google.com/books?id=iKHOeLDvUVgC&lpg=PA7&ots=NRIss5cRr9&dq=linguistic%20drift%20in%20endangered%20languages&lr&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false</A>

<P>Milroy & Milroy - Linguistic Change, Social Network and Speaker Innovation
<BR><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/publiccs/SELDR//Milroy&Milroy-Linguist_change_social_network_and_speaker_innovation.pdf">
Milroy_Milroy-Linguist_change_social_network_and_speaker_innovation.pdf</A>