The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese

J Clancy Clements

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• The historical spread of Spanish and Portuguese throughout the world provides a rich source of data for linguists studying how languages evolve and ch... Lees meer

Contact Languages

Umberto Ansaldo

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a m... Lees meer

Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• The ways in which young people use language provides fascinating insights into language practice and contact. Written by a team of key scholars in the... Lees meer

The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars

Enoch Oladé Aboh

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this s... Lees meer

Postcolonial English

Edgar W Schneider

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties around the world. Postcolonial English provide... Lees meer

The Lingua Franca

Natalie Operstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Whose name is hidden behind the anonymity of the key publication on Mediterranean Lingua Franca? What linguistic reality does the label 'Lingua Franca... Lees meer

Diglossia and Language Contact

Lotfi Sayahi

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This volume provides a detailed analysis of language contact in North Africa and explores the historical presence of the languages used in the region,... Lees meer

The Making of Vernacular Singapore English

Zhiming Bao

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Singapore English is a focal point across the many subfields of linguistics, as its semantic, syntactic and phonetic/phonological qualities tell us a ... Lees meer

Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Contributions from an international team of experts revisit and update the concept of linguistic ecology in order to critically examine current theore... Lees meer

World Englishes and Culture Wars

Braj Kachru

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Written from a non-Western perspective, this book exposes the inadequacy of oppositions such as native versus non-native Englishes and English versus ... Lees meer

Postcolonial English

Edgar W Schneider

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties around the world. Postcolonial English provide... Lees meer

Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular

Sandro Sessarego

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a co... Lees meer

The Bilingual Child

Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• How does a child become bilingual? The answer to this intriguing question remains largely a mystery, not least because it has been far less extensivel... Lees meer

The Ecology of Language Evolution

Salikoko S Mufwene, Mufwene Salikoko S

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for g... Lees meer

Language Contact in Europe

Bridget Drinka

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth,... Lees meer

The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars

Enoch Oladé Aboh

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this s... Lees meer

The Ecology of Language Evolution

Salikoko S Mufwene

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for g... Lees meer

The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese

J Clancy Clements

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• The historical spread of Spanish and Portuguese throughout the world provides a rich source of data for linguists studying how languages evolve and ch... Lees meer

Language Contact in Europe

Bridget Drinka

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth,... Lees meer

Dynamics of Language Contact

Michael Clyne, Clyne Michael

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Written by an expert in the field, this study examines the dynamics of contact between languages in an immigrant context. Michael Clyne discusses the ... Lees meer

Complexity in Language

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• The question of complexity, as in what makes one language more 'complex' than another, is a long-established topic of debate amongst linguists. Recent... Lees meer

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Emanuel J Drechsel

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical sub... Lees meer

The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

Jan Blommaert

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes i... Lees meer

The Making of Vernacular Singapore English

Zhiming Bao

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Singapore English is a focal point across the many subfields of linguistics, as its semantic, syntactic and phonetic/phonological qualities tell us a ... Lees meer