Across Before Columbus?
Across Before Columbus?

Author: Donald Y. Gilmore

Publisher: New England Antiquities Research Association

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Indice: Section 1: Artifacts, sities and archaeoastronomy; Section 2: Botany, biology and people; Section 3: Linguistics, inscriptions and glyphs; Section 4: Diffusion and voyages.

The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

Author: Silvia Kouwenberg

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-02-11

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 1444305999

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Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change
Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change

Author: Claudine Chamoreau

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-04-26

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 3110271435

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Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-induced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A variety of explanations are identified and their relationships are analyzed. Only a multifaceted methodology enables this fine-grained approach to contact-induced change. A range of methodologies are proposed, but the chapters generally have their roots in a typological perspective. The contributors recognize the precautionary principle: for example, they emphasize the difficulty of studying languages that have not been described adequately and for which diachronic data are not extensive or reliable. Three main perspectives on contact-induced language change are presented. The first explores the role of multilingual speakers in contact-induced language change, especially their spontaneous innovations in discourse. The second explores the differences between ordinary contact-induced change and change in endangered languages. The third discusses various aspects of the relationship between contact-induced change and internal change.

American Indian Languages
American Indian Languages

Author: Lyle Campbell

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 0195140508

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Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.