Boundaries and bridges: language contact in multilingual ecologies
Éditeur :
De Gruyter
ISBN :
9781614516842
Date de publication :
26 juin 2017
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,5 cm
Poids :
825 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change.