Language Contact

By Yaron Matras | Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Combining the author's research with an up-to-date introduction to key concepts, this textbook provides a holistic, original theory of contact linguistics. This second edition has been updated to reflect the many recent developments in this rapidly moving field making it an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers in linguistics.

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Hardcover
ISBN 9781108425117
Paperback
ISBN 9781108440080

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Combining the author's research with an up-to-date introduction to key concepts, this textbook provides a holistic, original theory of contact linguistics. This second edition has been updated to reflect the many recent developments in this rapidly moving field making it an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers in linguistics.

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Combining the author's research with an up-to-date introduction to key concepts, this textbook provides a holistic, original theory of contact linguistics. This second edition has been updated to reflect the many recent developments in this rapidly moving field making it an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers in linguistics.

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Language and Linguistics > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics

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Yaron Matras

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Cambridge University Press

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Language Contact is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781108425117) and paperback(ISBN 9781108440080)