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Can I read The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) on EtoBox?
The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) by Salikoko S. Mufwene is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) about?
This major new 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 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. <i>The Ecology of Language Evolution</i> will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, creolistics, theoretical linguistics and theories of evolution.
Who reads The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Salikoko S. Mufwene
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511328459
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Historical Fiction, Linguistics
