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Language evolution : contact, competition and change
- Title
- Language evolution : contact, competition and change / Salikoko S. Mufwene.
- Author
- Mufwene, Salikoko S.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Continuum, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- xiv, 354 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-336) and indexes.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction; Part 1: Population Dynamics and Language Evolution; 2. Language evolution; 3. Population movements, contacts, competition, selection, and language evolution; 4. How population-wide patterns emerge in language evolution; 5. What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of language?; 6. Race, racialism, and the study of language evolution in America; Part 2: Competition, Selection, And the Development of Creoles; 7. Competition and selection in language evolution; 8. Transfer and the 'substrate hypothesis' in creolistics; 9. Grammaticization and the development of creoles; 10. Multilingualism in linguistic history; Part 3: Globalization And Language Vitality; 11. Language birth and death; 12. Globalization and the myth of killer languages; 13. Globalization and language vitality in Francophone Africa; 14. A Case Study: The ecology of Gullah's survival; Conclusions: The big picture and questions for future research; Bibliography; Index.
- ISBN
- 9780826493699 (hbk.)
- 0826493696 (hbk.)
- 9780826493705 (pbk.)
- 082649370X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2008005678
- 99991533720
- OCLC
- 156830970
- ocn156830970
- SCSB-5521012
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries