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Contact Languages

A Comprehensive Guide

Yaron Matras editor Peter Bakker editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:20th Jun '16

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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.

ISBN: 9781501512674

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 818g

451 pages