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This chapter examines the effects that contact with English has on the Romance languages. It adopts an innovative approach by exploring the effects of contact in a comparative dimension across three languages: French, Italian and Spanish. Most of the work concerns the European standard languages or varieties of these languages spoken as a result of colonization and/or migration in North America. The chapter begins with an overview of the history and nature of contact between English and the Romance languages. There follow two sections devoted to, first, the effects of contact at the lexical level and, second, the effects of contact at all other levels. The chapter illustrates the benefits of adopting a comparative approach in contact linguistics. In particular, this new approach allows us to capture larger generalizations about language contact both within this family and cross-linguistically.
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