Linguistic Contact and Language Change: An Introduction

by Robert McColl Millar

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Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language change. This undergraduate textbook provides a means by which these processes, both modern and historical, can be analysed, based on cutting-edge theoretical and methodological practices. Chapters cover language death, the development of pidgins and creoles, linguistic convergence and language contact, and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1316512738

ISBN13:9781316512739

Release Date:January 2025

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:218 Pages

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Language Arts

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