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Contact Languages

- Ecology and Evolution in Asia

About Contact Languages

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.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780521863971
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 276
  • Published:
  • October 14, 2009
  • Dimensions:
  • 155x234x17 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 57 g.
Delivery: 2-3 weeks
Expected delivery: December 12, 2024

Description of Contact Languages

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.

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