Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia - Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact - Ansaldo, Umberto (The University of Hong Kong) - Books - Cambridge University Press - 9780521682534 - August 22, 2013
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Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia - Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact

Ansaldo, Umberto (The University of Hong Kong)

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Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia - Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact

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.


276 pages, black & white illustrations

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Released August 22, 2013
ISBN13 9780521682534
Publishers Cambridge University Press
Pages 276
Dimensions 228 × 152 × 15 mm   ·   378 g