The Author: Francesco Gardani was born in Casalmaggiore (Italy) in 1975. He was trained in General Linguistics at Vienna University as well as in German and Spanish Philology at the universities of Venice and Münster. He is presently assistant lecturer of linguistics at the Department of Romance Languages at Vienna University. His areas of interest encompass historical linguistics, morphology, contact linguistics, and sociolinguistics and his current research is on the dynamics of productivity of inflectional classes from the diachronic perspective.

• Contents: Contact-induced language change – Contact-induced morphological change – Problems and predictions – Case studies – Analysis – Definition of inflectional borrowing.

The Author: Francesco Gardani was born in Casalmaggiore (Italy) in 1975. He was trained in General Linguistics at Vienna University as well as in German and Spanish Philology at the universities of Venice and Münster. He is presently assistant lecturer of linguistics at the Department of Romance Languages at Vienna University. His areas of interest encompass historical linguistics, morphology, contact linguistics, and sociolinguistics and his current research is on the dynamics of productivity of inflectional classes from the diachronic perspective.

• Contents: Contact-induced language change – Contact-induced morphological change – Problems and predictions – Case studies – Analysis – Definition of inflectional borrowing.

The Author: Francesco Gardani was born in Casalmaggiore (Italy) in 1975. He was trained in General Linguistics at Vienna University as well as in German and Spanish Philology at the universities of Venice and Münster. He is presently assistant lecturer of linguistics at the Department of Romance Languages at Vienna University. His areas of interest encompass historical linguistics, morphology, contact linguistics, and sociolinguistics and his current research is on the dynamics of productivity of inflectional classes from the diachronic perspective.

• Contents: Contact-induced language change – Contact-induced morphological change – Problems and predictions – Case studies – Analysis – Definition of inflectional borrowing.