The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact: Volume 1: Population Movement and Language Change

by Kim Potowski

Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - has been pervasive in human history. However, where histories of language contact are comparable, experiences of migrant populations have been only similar, not identical. Given this, how does language contact work? With contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the first in a two-volume set - delves into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009098640
• ISBN13: 9781009098649
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 782 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.7" x 9.7"