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Cambridge University Press The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact)

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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.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0521794757
Category: Books > Subjects > Language Study & Reference
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 January 2008
Listed Since: 08 January 2007

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