An Introduction to Contact LinguisticsISBN: 978-0-631-21251-5
Paperback
440 pages
December 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- Provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of contact
linguistics.
- Examines a wide range of language contact phenomena from both
general linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives.
- Offers an account of current approaches to all of the major
types of contact-induced change.
- Discusses the general processes and principles that are at work in cases of contact.