Contact Linguistics - Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes

Zusatztext The new book of Myers-Scotton is one of the most important contributions to the study of codeswitching and language contacts that has been published in recent years both because of the width of issues discussed and theoretical depth of treating these issues. Informationen zum Autor Carol Myers-Scotton is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. She is a specialist in sociolinguistics and language contact phenomena with a special interest in East and Southern African linguistics. In 1993, she published two volumes on codeswitching, Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa, and Duelling Languages: Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching (both OUP). She has also edited a volume of essays on language and literature (OUP 1998) and has published a number of articles in her areas of interest. Zusammenfassung This volume provides an account of contact outcome theories! including the author's own. It should provide coursebook material for advanced undergraduates and graduates.

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• Authors: MYERS SCOTTON CAROL, Carol Myers-Scotton, Carol ( Myers-Scotton, Carol (Distinguished Professor of L Myers-Scotton, Carol (Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Myers-Scotton, Myers-Scotton Carol
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2002
• EAN: 9780198299523
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829952-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology, Language acquisition, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism