1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454580003321

Autore

Mufwene Salikoko S.

Titolo

The ecology of language evolution / / Salikoko S. Mufwene [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-12150-7

0-511-04678-2

0-511-15457-7

0-511-32845-1

0-521-79138-3

0-511-17461-6

0-511-61286-9

1-280-42999-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge approaches to language contact

Disciplina

417/.7

Soggetti

Historical linguistics

Creole dialects - History

Languages in contact

Social ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-245) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Founder Principle in the development of creoles; 3 The development of American Englishes: factoring contact in and the social bias out; 4 The legitimate and illegitimate offspring of English; 5 What research on development of creoles can contribute to genetic linguistics; 6 Language contact, evolution, and death: how ecology rolls the dice; 7 Past and recent population movements in Africa: their impact on its linguistic landscape; 8 Conclusions: the big picture; Notes

ReferencesAuthor index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This major 2001 work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues



they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book discusses the nature and significance of internal and external factors or 'ecologies' that bear on the evolution of a language. The book surveys a wide range of examples of changes in the structure, function and vitality of languages, and suggests that similar ecologies have played the same kinds of roles in all cases of language evolution. Drawing on major theories of language formation, macroecology and population genetics, Mufwene proposes a common approach to the development of creoles and other new languages. The Ecology of Language Evolution will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, creolistics, theoretical linguistics and theories of evolution.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391901303316

Autore

Heywood Thomas <approximately 1574-1641.>

Titolo

Gynaikeion: or, Nine bookes of various history. Concerninge women [[electronic resource] ] : inscribed by ye names of ye nine Muses. Written by Thom: Heywoode

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Adam Islip, 1624

Descrizione fisica

[12], 466, [2] p

Soggetti

Women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Partly in verse.

The title page is engraved; first word of title in Greek characters.

The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113