Robert McColl Millar

Linguistic Contact and Language Change

An Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316512739
• ISBN-10: 1316512738
• Artikelnr.: 70397631

Autorenporträt

Robert McColl Millar is Professor in Linguistics and Scottish Language at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has a particular interest in the ways in which history, economics, and ideology interact with language use, now and in the past. He his recent publications include A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland (2020), Trask's Historical Linguistics, 4th edition (2023), and A History of the Scots Language (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Language death, language attrition and language contact
3. Pidgins and Creoles
4. Semi-Creoles (varieties with Creole-like features which are not Creoles)
5. Macro-convergence
6. Close-variety convergence and change: the Koine
7. Some final thoughts.