Lectures on Language Contact

by Ilse Lehiste

Book Overview

These concise lectures have been developed and refined over a period of ten years as the basis for the author's senior and first-year graduate course on language contact. They provide factual information on and interpretations of a topic of obvious sociolinguistic importance; Lehiste's more formal linguistic approach (reflected in the emphasis on the experimental testing of theories) offers the student a firm background to which sociological and anthropological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262620618
• ISBN13: 9780262620611
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher