Langtext This book is a comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved.
* Provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of contact linguistics.
* Examines a wide range of language contact phenomena from both general linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives.
* Offers an account of current approaches to all of the major types of contact-induced change.
* Discusses the general processes and principles that are at work in cases of contact.
Aus dem Inhalt 1. Introduction: The Field of Contact Linguistics.
2. Language Maintenance and Lexical Borrowing.
3. Structural Diffusion in Situations of Language Maintenance.
4. Code Switching in its Social Contexts.
5. Code Switching: Linguistic Aspects.
6. Bilingual Mixed Languages.
7. Second Language Acquisition and Language Shift.