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Surveying situations in which language contact arises, Sarah G. Thomason focuses on what happens to the languages themselves: sometimes nothing, sometimes the incorporation of new words, sometimes the spread of new sounds and sentence structures across many languages and wide swathes of territory. She outlines the origins and results of contact-induced language change, extreme language mixture - which can produce pidgins, creoles, and bilingual mixed languages - and language death. The book concludes with a brief survey of language endangerment.
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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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This text documents the linguistic consequences of contact between different languages, focusing on what happens to the languages themselves. The author outlines the origins and results of contact-induced language change, extreme language mixture and language death.
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- PublisherGeorgetown University Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0878408541
- ISBN 13 9780878408542
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
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