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Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide: 6 (Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB], 6)

Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide: 6 (Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB], 6)

by Peter Bakker (Editor), Yaron Matras (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2013

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Synopsis

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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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 452
 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 17 Jun 2013
ISBN 10: 1614514763
ISBN 13: 9781614514763

Media Reviews
This collection forms an exhaustive volume on contact languages in a way that not only thoroughly summarizes and challenges traditional theories and models pertaining to this field of study, but also provides newer approaches to analyzing contact languages, their origins, and methods of classification, and as such, lays the framework for further investigation on contact languages.
Farah Ali in: www.linguistlist.org 08/2017
Author Bio
Yaron Matras, University of Manchester, UK; Peter Bakker, Aarhus University, Denmark.