Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics

By Sarah Grey Thomason, Terrence Kaufman, Sarah G. Thomason

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520057899
• ISBN13: 9780520057890
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.