Pidgins and Creoles more books like this

by Loreto Todd

The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English-based and which have arisen since the 15th century. The book examines the widespread nature of the pidgin/creole phenomenon and evaluates the current definitions of the terms and the theories which have been advanced to account for their existence. The author considers the ...

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Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America more books like this

by John McWhorter

Arguing that speech deviation from "Standard" American English is not wrong, McWhorter focuses on classroom applications to offer teachers, teacher educators and administrators useful basic language principles commonly accepted by linguists, but rarely disseminated to the general public.

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Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages more books like this

by Cecil H Brown

Brown examines the nature of acculturation - the process of the incorporation of foreign words about new concepts into a language - in the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans. Specifically, he examines how Native American languages adjusted to the introduction of foreign objects and concepts after 1492. He looks systematically at ...

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Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics more books like this

by Sarah Grey Thomason

Ten years of research back up the theory advanced by author Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered. The authors establish a new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change.

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Lectures on Language Contact more books like this

by Ilse Lehiste

These concise lectures have been developed and refined over a period of ten years as the basis for the author's senior and first-year graduate course on language contact.

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The Genesis of Language: The First Michigan Colloquium, 1979 more books like this

by Derek Bickerton, Gillian Sankoff, John Schumann

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Language contact more books like this

by Sarah Grey Thomason

Language contact is everywhere: many nations have more than one official language, and quite possibly most people in the world speak two or more languages. What happens to different peoples and to their languages when they come into contact? In this survey of the social, political and linguistic consequences of language contact, Sarah G. Thomason ...

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Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas: Vol I: Maps. Vol II: Texts more books like this

by International Council of Philosophy & Hu, Stephen A Wurm (Editor), Peter Muehlhaeusler (Editor)

Much of the contents of this atlas is based on recent research results concerning intercultural communciation and contact language situations in a very large part of the world. Many of the findings have an impact upon existing views, especially regarding the origin of Pacific Pidgin English as well as intercommunication in the indigneous Artic and ...

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The Ethnography of Variation: Selected Writings on Pidgins and Creoles more books like this

by Derek Bickerton, Hugo Schuchardt, Thomas L. Markey

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On the Existence of Mixed Languages more books like this

by James Cresswell Clough

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On the Existence of Mixed Languages: Being an Examination of the Fundamental Axioms of the Foreign School of Modern Philology, More Especially as Applied to the English (1876) more books like this

by James Cresswell Clough

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Beitrage Zum 3. Essener Kolloquium Uber Sprachwandel Und Seine Bestimmenden Faktoren, Vom 30.9.-2.10.1987 an Der Universitat Essen more books like this

by Norbert Boretzky

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Phonological Variation in the Jamaican Continuum more books like this

by Glenn A Akers

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Contact Languages: A Wider Perspective more books like this

by Sarah G. Thomason (Editor)

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