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Diglossia and Language Contact
Language Variation and Change in North Africa
Av Lotfi Sayahi
Inbunden, 2014
1844 kr
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This volume provides a detailed analysis of language contact in North Africa and explores the historical presence of the languages used in the region, including the different varieties of Arabic and Berber as well as European languages. Using a wide range of data sets, it provides a comprehensive …
The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars
Language Contact and Change
Häftad, 2019
687 kr
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Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this study of creole languages, Enoch Oladé Aboh addresses this question, arguing that language acquisition requires contact between different linguistic …
A Linguistic Geography of Africa
Häftad, 2011
738 kr
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More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families. This has meant that an interest in …
Language Contact in Europe
The Periphrastic Perfect through History
Inbunden, 2017
1919 kr
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This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth, it traces the spread of the periphrastic perfect across Europe over the last 2,500 years, illustrating at each stage the micro-responses of speakers …
World Englishes and Culture Wars
Häftad, 2019
586 kr
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Written from a non-Western perspective, this book exposes the inadequacy of oppositions such as native versus non-native Englishes and English versus New Englishes. It explains why the label 'World Englishes' captures both what the different Englishes share and how they differ from each other. It …
Postcolonial English
Varieties around the World
Häftad, 2007
804 kr
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The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties around the world. Postcolonial English provides a clear and original account of the evolution of these varieties, exploring the historical, social and ecological factors that have shaped all …
The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese
Colonial Expansion and Language Change
Häftad, 2009
714 kr
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The historical spread of Spanish and Portuguese throughout the world provides a rich source of data for linguists studying how languages evolve and change. This volume analyses the development of Portuguese and Spanish from Latin and their subsequent transformation into several non-standard …
The Bilingual Child
Early Development and Language Contact
Av Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews
Häftad, 2007
552 kr
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How does a child become bilingual? The answer to this intriguing question remains largely a mystery, not least because it has been far less extensively researched than the process of mastering a first language. Drawing on new studies of children exposed to two languages from birth (English and …
Language Contact and Grammatical Change
Av Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists. This study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers an interesting insight into the mechanism that …
Contact Languages
Ecology and Evolution in Asia
Häftad, 2013
586 kr
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Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar? …
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
Häftad, 2010
619 kr
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Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in …
The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars
Language Contact and Change
Inbunden, 2015
2029 kr
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Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this study of creole languages, Enoch Oladé Aboh addresses this question, arguing that language acquisition requires contact between different linguistic …
Dynamics of Language Contact
English and Immigrant Languages
Av Michael Clyne, Salikoko S. Mufwene
Häftad, 2003
787 kr
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The past decade has seen an unprecedented growth in the study of language contact, associated partly with the linguistic effects of globalization and increased migration all over the world. Written by a leading expert in the field, this much-needed account brings together disparate findings to …
The Ecology of Language Evolution
Av Salikoko S. Mufwene, Salikoko S. Mufwene m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1274 kr
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This major 2001 work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book discusses the nature and significance of internal and external factors …
The Ecology of Language Evolution
Av Salikoko S. Mufwene, Salikoko S. Mufwene
Häftad, 2001
720 kr
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This major 2001 work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book discusses the nature and significance of internal and external factors …
World Englishes and Culture Wars
Inbunden, 2017
1844 kr
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Written from a non-Western perspective, this book exposes the inadequacy of oppositions such as native versus non-native Englishes and English versus New Englishes. It explains why the label 'World Englishes' captures both what the different Englishes share and how they differ from each other. It …
Postcolonial English
Varieties around the World
Inbunden, 2007
1610 kr
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The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties around the world. Postcolonial English provides a clear and original account of the evolution of these varieties, exploring the historical, social and ecological factors that have shaped all …
The Bilingual Child
Early Development and Language Contact
Av Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews
Inbunden, 2007
1173 kr
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How does a child become bilingual? The answer to this intriguing question remains largely a mystery, not least because it has been far less extensively researched than the process of mastering a first language. Drawing on new studies of children exposed to two languages from birth (English and …
Language Contact and Grammatical Change
Inbunden, 2005
1341 kr
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The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists. This study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers an interesting insight into the mechanism that …
Contact Languages
Ecology and Evolution in Asia
Inbunden, 2009
1844 kr
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Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar? …
A Linguistic Geography of Africa
Inbunden, 2007
2029 kr
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More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families. This has meant that an interest in …
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
Inbunden, 2010
1777 kr
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Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in …
Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact
Av Ralph Ludwig, Steve Pagel m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
687 kr
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Contributions from an international team of experts revisit and update the concept of linguistic ecology in order to critically examine current theoretical approaches to language contact. Language is understood as a part of complex socio-historical-cultural systems, and interaction between the …
Nahuatl and its Speakers across Time
A Multidisciplinary Account of Language Contact, Change, and Continuity
Av Justyna Olko, John Sullivan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1659 kr
Kommande
Drawing on an extensive source base spanning five hundred years, from the first half of the sixteenth century to the present, this is the first comprehensive, data-driven study of both historical and modern varieties of Nahuatl, a major Indigenous language spoken in North America. Employing …
Nahuatl and its Speakers across Time
A Multidisciplinary Account of Language Contact, Change, and Continuity
Av Justyna Olko, John Sullivan m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
605 kr
Kommande
Drawing on an extensive source base spanning five hundred years, from the first half of the sixteenth century to the present, this is the first comprehensive, data-driven study of both historical and modern varieties of Nahuatl, a major Indigenous language spoken in North America. Employing …
Liquid Languages
Constructing Languages in Late Modern Cultures of Diffusion
Inbunden, 2025
1657 kr
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Which ideas about language are prevalent in cultures that are not framed in Western nationalist and literate traditions? How do people conceptualise language if speakers of the same community are multilingual, have access to different language resources and only partially share ideas about what is …
Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific
Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English
Inbunden, 2014
1657 kr
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This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the …
The Making of Vernacular Singapore English
System, Transfer, and Filter
Av Zhiming Bao
Inbunden, 2015
1693 kr
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Singapore English is a focal point across the many subfields of linguistics, as its semantic, syntactic and phonetic/phonological qualities tell us a great deal about what happens when very different types of language come together. Sociolinguists are also interested in the relative status of …
Bilingual Language Acquisition
Spanish and English in the First Six Years
Inbunden, 2014
1985 kr
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How do children develop bilingual competence? Do bilingual children develop language in the same way as monolinguals? Set in the context of findings on language development, this book examines the acquisition of English and Spanish by two brothers in the first six years of their lives. Based on …
Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact
Av Ralph Ludwig, Steve Pagel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1962 kr
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Contributions from an international team of experts revisit and update the concept of linguistic ecology in order to critically examine current theoretical approaches to language contact. Language is understood as a part of complex socio-historical-cultural systems, and interaction between the …
