Contact Languages - A Comprehensive Guide

This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language descent and linguistic family tree models; and a sociolinguistic perspective, identifying specific social contexts in which contact languages emerge.

About the author

Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the interface of linguistic typology, discourse pragmatics and language processing, and language change, as well as multilingualism and dialects. He has published widely on the linguistics of Romani and on language contact.

Product details

• Assisted by: Pete Bakker (Editor), Peter Bakker (Editor), Matras (Editor), Matras (Editor), Yaron Matras (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781501512674
• ISBN: 978-1-5015-1267-4
• No. of pages: 441
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 230 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 666 g
• Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism; Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]; Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]; Language Contact and Bilingualism; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures