Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics

Type

Book

Authors

Sarah Grey Thomason

Kaufman ( Terrence Kaufman )

ISBN 10

0520078934

ISBN 13

9780520078932

Tags

Criticism & Theory, Foreign Language Study & Reference, Linguistics, Customs & Traditions, Cultural, Literary Theory, Anthropology

Description

Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change. - from Amzon

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