Contact Linguistics
Subtitle: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes (Oxford Linguistics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: October 3, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780198299523
First sentence: This is an investigation of what happens to the grammatical structure of languages when their speakers are bilingual and their speech brings their two (or more) languages into contact.
Description: 'Contact linguistics' provides an account of contact outcome theories, including the author's own. It has coursebook potential for advanced undergraduates and graduates.