Complexity in Language

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• The question of complexity, as in what makes one language more 'complex' than another, is a long-established topic of debate amongst linguists. Recent... Lees meer

Language Contact and Grammatical Change

Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pione... Lees meer

The Making of Vernacular Singapore English

Zhiming Bao

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Singapore English is a focal point across the many subfields of linguistics, as its semantic, syntactic and phonetic/phonological qualities tell us a ... Lees meer

The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars

Enoch Oladé Aboh

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this s... Lees meer

Postcolonial English

Edgar W Schneider

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties around the world. Postcolonial English provide... Lees meer

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Emanuel J Drechsel

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical sub... Lees meer

Dynamics of Language Contact

Michael Clyne

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Written by an expert in the field, this study examines the dynamics of contact between languages in an immigrant context. Michael Clyne discusses the ... Lees meer

The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

Jan Blommaert

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• 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 i... Lees meer

Diglossia and Language Contact

Lotfi Sayahi

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This volume provides a detailed analysis of language contact in North Africa and explores the historical presence of the languages used in the region,... Lees meer

Contact Languages

Umberto Ansaldo

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This book explores the social and structural dynamics underlying the creation of new, or restructured, grammars, offering an evolutionary account of c... Lees meer

Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular

Sandro Sessarego

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a co... Lees meer

Diglossia and Language Contact

Lotfi Sayahi

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This volume provides a detailed analysis of language contact in North Africa and explores the historical presence of the languages used in the region,... Lees meer

A Linguistic Geography of Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African lang... Lees meer

Language Contact in Europe

Bridget Drinka

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth,... Lees meer

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Emanuel J Drechsel

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical sub... Lees meer

The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars

Enoch Oladé Aboh

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this s... Lees meer

The Ecology of Language Evolution

Salikoko S Mufwene

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for g... Lees meer

The Lingua Franca

Natalie Operstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Whose name is hidden behind the anonymity of the key publication on Mediterranean Lingua Franca? What linguistic reality does the label 'Lingua Franca... Lees meer

Complexity in Language

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• The question of complexity, as in what makes one language more 'complex' than another, is a long-established topic of debate amongst linguists. Recent... Lees meer

Language Contact and Grammatical Change

Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pione... Lees meer

Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular

Sandro Sessarego

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a co... Lees meer

Language Contact in Europe

Bridget Drinka

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth,... Lees meer

Bilingual Language Acquisition

Carmen Silva-Corvalán

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• How do children develop bilingual competence? Do bilingual children develop language in the same way as monolinguals? Set in the context of findings o... Lees meer

The Ecology of Language Evolution

Salikoko S Mufwene

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for g... Lees meer