Language contact /
"Manifestations of language contact are found in a great variety of domains, including language acquisition, language processing and production, conversation and discourse, social functions of language and language policy, typology and language change, and more. This makes it a special challeng...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.
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| Summary: | "Manifestations of language contact are found in a great variety of domains, including language acquisition, language processing and production, conversation and discourse, social functions of language and language policy, typology and language change, and more. This makes it a special challenge to compile an overview of the subject. Most introductory works devoted to contact linguistics have hitherto chosen to specialise either in the individual-synchronic aspects of bilingualism, or in structural-diachronic aspects of contact-induced language change. This book introduces an integrated theory of language contact, within which the study of these various domains can be bound together"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 410 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781108425117 1108425119 9781108440080 1108440088 |