Contact language formation in evolutionary terms
The aim of this paper is to present a view of contact language formation in which language creation in multilingual ecologies follows the same principles as language maintenance in monolingual ecologies, i.e. selection and replication of features available to speakers in a given environment. In orde...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86391 |