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