The papers in this collection throw fresh light on the relation between language contact and contrastive linguistics. The book focuses equally on the mutual inf
Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observat
This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a num
This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultu
“This remains the fundamental base for studies of multilingual communities and language shift. Weinreich laid out the concepts, principles and issues that gov