Contact Languages
Download or Read eBook Contact Languages PDF written by Peter Bakker and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Peter Bakker |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2013-06-26 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781614513711 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1614513716 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Contact Languages by : Peter Bakker
Book excerpt: 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.
