Contact language formation in evolutionary terms

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ansaldo, Umberto
Other Authors:	Aboh, Enoch O
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86391

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