Language contact
Matras, Yaron, 1963-
Language contact Book / Yaron Matras, University of Manchester. - Second edition. - xix, 410 pages - Cambridge textbooks in linguistics .
"Manifestations of language contact are found in a great variety of domains, including language acquisition, language processing and production, conversation and discourse, social functions of language and language policy, typology and language change, and more. This makes it a special challenge to compile an overview of the subject. Most introductory works devoted to contact linguistics have hitherto chosen to specialise either in the individual-synchronic aspects of bilingualism, or in structural-diachronic aspects of contact-induced language change. This book introduces an integrated theory of language contact, within which the study of these various domains can be bound together"--
All.
9781108440080 (paperback)
Multilingualism.
Second language acquisition.
306.446
Language contact Book / Yaron Matras, University of Manchester. - Second edition. - xix, 410 pages - Cambridge textbooks in linguistics .
"Manifestations of language contact are found in a great variety of domains, including language acquisition, language processing and production, conversation and discourse, social functions of language and language policy, typology and language change, and more. This makes it a special challenge to compile an overview of the subject. Most introductory works devoted to contact linguistics have hitherto chosen to specialise either in the individual-synchronic aspects of bilingualism, or in structural-diachronic aspects of contact-induced language change. This book introduces an integrated theory of language contact, within which the study of these various domains can be bound together"--
All.
9781108440080 (paperback)
Multilingualism.
Second language acquisition.
306.446