Contact Languages

Contact Languages
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9781614513711
ISBN-13 : 1614513716
Rating : 4/5 (716 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Contact Languages by : Peter Bakker

Download or read book Contact Languages written by Peter Bakker and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language descent and linguistic family tree models; and a sociolinguistic perspective, identifying specific social contexts in which contact languages emerge.


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