Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics

Author/Contributor(s):	Thomason, Sarah Grey
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	02/12/1992
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change.