Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics

Sarah Grey Thomason; Terrence Kaufman
University of California Press
9780520078932
0-520-07893-4

Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The.

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authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change.