Contact Languages
Umberto (The University of Hong Kong) Ansaldo
Cambridge University Press, 2013
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This book explores the social and structural dynamics underlying the creation of new, or restructured, grammars, offering an evolutionary account of contact language formation in the linguistic ecology of Monsoon Asia, including contacts between languages and peoples of Malay, Chinese, Portuguese and English origin, before, during and after Western colonization.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521682534
- ISBN-10
- 0521682533
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2013
- Publication date
- 2013-08-22
- Pages
- 276
- Dimensions
- 152x228x15
- Weight
- 378