Contact Languages - Paperback

by Peter Bakker (Editor), Yaron Matras (Editor)

This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language descent and linguistic family tree models; and a sociolinguistic perspective, identifying specific social contexts in which contact languages emerge.

Author Biography

Yaron Matras, Manchester, UK; Peter Bakker, Aarhus University, Denmark.