Linguistic Contact and Language Change

An Introduction

By Robert McColl Millar | Publisher: Cambridge University Press

About the book

Speakers of different languages come into contact; their languages influence each other. This textbook investigates this reality in modern and historical contexts. Each central theme introduces an in-depth, real-world case study, key concepts are clearly defined, and end of chapter exercises and research tasks encourage autonomous learning.

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ISBN 9781316512739
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ISBN 9781009069090

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Speakers of different languages come into contact; their languages influence each other. This textbook investigates this reality in modern and historical contexts. Each central theme introduces an in-depth, real-world case study, key concepts are clearly defined, and end of chapter exercises and research tasks encourage autonomous learning.

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Speakers of different languages come into contact; their languages influence each other. This textbook investigates this reality in modern and historical contexts. Each central theme introduces an in-depth, real-world case study, key concepts are clearly defined, and end of chapter exercises and research tasks encourage autonomous learning.

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Language and Linguistics > Linguistics > Historical and comparative linguistics

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Linguistic Contact and Language Change has 218 page(s)

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Robert McColl Millar

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Cambridge University Press

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