Contact Languages

  • Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide
    Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide
    By Peter Bakker, Yaron Matras

    This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects.

  • Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia
    Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia
    By Umberto Ansaldo

    This book explores the social and structural dynamics underlying the creation of new, or restructured, grammars, offering an evolutionary account of contact language formation in the linguistic ecology of Monsoon Asia, including contacts ...

  • Contact languages: critical concepts in language studies. Vol. 4
    Contact languages: critical concepts in language studies. Vol. 4
    By John A. Holm, Susanne Michaelis

    The collection is indexed for theme and language. Contact has always been a normal part of the development of languages, from those of ancient empires, those of colonial expansion, and to those of our globalizing planet today.

  • Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles
    Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles
    By Mark Sebba

    The book deals with the linguistic, historical and social aspects of the development of pidgin and creole languages.

  • Contact Languages: A Wider Perspective
    Contact Languages: A Wider Perspective
    By Sarah Grey Thomason

    This book contributes to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact by presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages. The twelve case studies...