The Mixed Language Debate
Subtitle: Theoretical and Empirical Advances (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)
Contributors: Yaron Matras (Editor); Peter Bakker (Editor)
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc; De Gruyter Mouton; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: December 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9783110177763
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Languages, Mixed; Language; Languages in contact
First sentence: One seldom encounters a language that is not, in some way, mixed, in the sense that it has been influenced at some point in its history by another language, and employs some structure or form that derives from that language.