Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems

ISBN-10: 3111748898
ISBN-13: 9783111748894
Series: Languages in Contact
Pages: 148
Language: English
Published: 1979-01-01
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Author: Uriel Weinreich

Description

This remains the fundamental base for studies of multilingual communities and language shift. Weinreich laid out the concepts, principles and issues that govern empirical work in this field, and it has not been replaced by any later general treatment. Prof. Dr. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics"