Linguistic Contact and Language Change: An Introduction

by Robert McColl Millar

Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language change. This undergraduate textbook provides a means by which these processes, both modern and historical, can be analysed, based on cutting-edge theoretical and methodological practices. Chapters cover language death, the development of pidgins and creoles, linguistic convergence and language contact, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316512738
• ISBN13: 9781316512739
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 218 Pages