Code Copying: The Strength of Languages in Take-Over and Carry-Over Roles

by Lars Johanson

This book presents Lars Johanson's Code-Copying Model, an integrated framework for the description of contact-induced processes. The model covers all the main contact linguistic issues in their synchronic and diachronic interrelationship. The terminology is kept intuitive and simple to apply. Illustrative examples from a wide range of languages demonstrate the model's applicability to both spoken and written codes. The fundamental difference between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004548432
• ISBN13: 9789004548435
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 168 Pages