Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Contact onsets and stability; 3. Multilingualism in nations and individuals; 4. Contact-induced language change: results; 5. Contact-induced language change: mechanisms; 6. Mechanisms of interference; 7. Contact languages I: Pidgins and creoles; 8. Contact languages II: Other mixed languages; 9. Language obsolescence; 10. Endangered languages.
Sarah G. Thomason is Professor of Linguistics at University of Michigan.
A eulogy to the richness of expression in language ! This is a very exciting book for readers who take delight in the diversity of the world's languages as well as for those readers who have made it their task to theorize about language on the basis of speech behaviour. Written with a common sense attitude and a sense of humor, with examples often drawn from the author's own research or personal experience. It is to be recommended both to students and to interested individuals not just as a textbook, but as an exciting reading material in general. A eulogy to the richness of expression in language ! This is a very exciting book for readers who take delight in the diversity of the world's languages as well as for those readers who have made it their task to theorize about language on the basis of speech behaviour. Written with a common sense attitude and a sense of humor, with examples often drawn from the author's own research or personal experience. It is to be recommended both to students and to interested individuals not just as a textbook, but as an exciting reading material in general.
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