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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794497503321

Titolo

Advances in contact linguistics : in honour of Pieter Muysken/ / edited by Norval Smith, University of Amsterdam, Tonjes Veenstra, ZAS, Enoch O. Aboh, University of Amsterdam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020]

©2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 400 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Contact language library ; ; Volume 57

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Languages in contact

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

"Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of multilingualism is language contact. This book contains twelve articles that discuss specific aspects of Contact Linguistics. These articles cover a wide range of topics in the field, including creoles, areal linguistics, language mixing, and the sociolinguistic aspects of interactions with audiences. The book is dedicated to Pieter Muysken whose work on pidgin and creole languages, mixed languages, code-switching, bilingualism, and areal linguistics has been ground-breaking and inspirational for the authors in this book, as well as numerous other scholars working on the various facets of this rapidly expanding field"--