Contact languages: ecology and evolution in asia
Auteur :
Ansaldo, Umberto
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521863971
Date de publication :
15 oct. 2009
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,5 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
570 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.