Author : John H. McWhorter
Release : 2011
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 379/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity by : John H. McWhorter
Download or read book Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity written by John H. McWhorter. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches.