Languages In Contact. - Hardcover

Nerbonne, John; Schaeken, Jos; Gilbers, Dicky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042013222 ISBN 13: 9789042013223

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2000

Synopsis

The present volume includes papers that were presented at the conference Languages in Contact at the University of Groningen (25-26 November 1999). The conference was held to celebrate the University of St. Petersburg's award of an honorary doctorate to Tjeerd de Graaf of Groningen. In general, the issues discussed in the articles involve pidgins and creoles, minorities and their languages, Diaspora situations, Sprachbund phenomena, extralinguistic correlates of variety in contact situations, problems of endangered languages and the typology of these languages. Special attention is paid to contact phenomena between languages of the Russian Empire / USSR / Russian Federation, their survival and the influence of Russian.

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Review:

This new volume of "Languages in Contact" is a worthy successor to Weinrich s epoch-making work. With its global spread and up-to-date exploration it is a veritable compendium of language contacts in: "Slavic and east European Review," 81.1, 2003"

This new volume of Languages in Contact is a worthy successor to Weinrich s epoch-making work. With its global spread and up-to-date exploration it is a veritable compendium of language contacts in: Slavic and east European Review, 81.1, 2003"

"This new volume of Languages in Contact is a worthy successor to Weinrich's epoch-making work. With its global spread and up-to-date exploration it is a veritable compendium of language contacts" in: Slavic and east European Review, 81.1, 2003

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 9042013222
• ISBN 13: 9789042013223
• Binding: Hardcover