Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Peter Bakker ,
Yaron Matras
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Volume: 6
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.800kg
ISBN: 9781614514763
ISBN 10: 1614514763
Pages: 451
Publication Date: 18 June 2013
Recommended Age: College Graduate Student
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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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
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 This is an important book, which should be consulted by all scholars of language contact for the state of art on the study of extraordinary/exceptional results due to intensive and unusual language contacts. Creoles are amog these unusual cases, but they are hardly the only kind; the up-to-the-minute chapters here on pidgins, mixed languages, and multiethnoletics ought now be treated as gold standard references. John McWorther in: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34/1 (2019), 171-177
""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 This is an important book, which should be consulted by all scholars of language contact for the state of art on the study of extraordinary/exceptional results due to intensive and unusual language contacts. Creoles are amog these unusual cases, but they are hardly the only kind; the up-to-the-minute chapters here on pidgins, mixed languages, and multiethnoletics ought now be treated as gold standard references."" John McWorther in: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34/1 (2019), 171-177
Author Information
Yaron Matras, Manchester, UK; Peter Bakker, Aarhus University, Denmark.
