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Language evolution : contact, competition and change

Title
  1. Language evolution : contact, competition and change / Salikoko S. Mufwene.
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  1. London ; New York : Continuum, [2008], ©2008.
Author
  1. Mufwene, Salikoko S.

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Description
  1. xiv, 354 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
Subject
  1. Linguistic change
  2. Creole dialects
  3. Language and languages > Variation
  4. Languages in contact
  5. Language obsolescence
  6. Taalgenese
  7. Taalcontact
  8. Creolisering
  9. évolution (biologie) > langage
  10. Sprachentwicklung
  11. Sprachwandel
Contents
  1. 1. Introduction; Part 1: Population Dynamics and Language Evolution; 2. Language evolution; 3. Population movements, contacts, competition, selection, and language evolution; 4. How population-wide patterns emerge in language evolution; 5. What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of language?; 6. Race, racialism, and the study of language evolution in America; Part 2: Competition, Selection, And the Development of Creoles; 7. Competition and selection in language evolution; 8. Transfer and the 'substrate hypothesis' in creolistics; 9. Grammaticization and the development of creoles; 10. Multilingualism in linguistic history; Part 3: Globalization And Language Vitality; 11. Language birth and death; 12. Globalization and the myth of killer languages; 13. Globalization and language vitality in Francophone Africa; 14. A Case Study: The ecology of Gullah's survival; Conclusions: The big picture and questions for future research; Bibliography; Index.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-336) and indexes.