Linguistic areas convergence in historical and typological perspective

The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyse the process of convergence, and introduce methods to assess the impact of langauge contact across geographical zones. New cases studies are introduced which extend the corpus of areas described s...

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Otros Autores: Matras, Yaron, 1963- (-), McMahon, April M. S., Vincent, Nigel
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan 2006
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Sumario:The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyse the process of convergence, and introduce methods to assess the impact of langauge contact across geographical zones. New cases studies are introduced which extend the corpus of areas described so far. They are accompanied by discussions that revisited some of the more well-established linguistic areas
Descripción Física:xx, 313 p. : il., maps ; 23 cm
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
ISBN:9781403996572