Sociolinguistics, Ecology - General & Miscellaneous, Creole & Pidgin Languages, Historical (Diachronic) Linguistics

The Ecology of Language Evolution

Name: The Ecology of Language Evolution
Author: Salikoko S. Mufwene
ISBN: 9780521794756

by Salikoko S. Mufwene

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Overview

This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book surveys a wide range of examples of changes in the structure, function and vitality of languages, and suggests that similar ecologies have played the same kinds of roles in all cases of language evolution. The Ecology of Language Evolution will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, creolistics, theoretical linguistics and theories of evolution.

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This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages.

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"Mufwene's proposals will undoubtedly interest linguists and theorists of evolution alike." Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis