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The Ecology of Language Evolution

The Ecology of Language Evolution

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0521791383
ISBN13: 9780521791380
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 30 2001
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book surveys a wide range of examples of changes in the structure, function and vitality of languages, and suggests that similar ecologies have played the same kinds of roles in all cases of language evolution. The Ecology of Language Evolution will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, creolistics, theoretical linguistics and theories of evolution.

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