Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia
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 mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar? Throu...
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Cambridge University Press
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85210 |