Linguistic contact and language change : an introduction /

Millar, Robert McColl,

Linguistic contact and language change : an introduction / Robert McColl Millar. - xiii, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.

This undergraduate textbook provides an introduction to the processes of language contact and subsequent change, both modern and historical. Chapters cover language death, pidgins and creoles, linguistic convergence, and new variety formation.

9781009069090


Languages in contact.
Linguistic change.
Sociolinguistics.

306.44 MIL