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Thomason, Sarah G. – 2001
This book surveys situations in which language contact arises and focuses on what happens to the languages themselves: sometimes nothing, sometimes the incorporation of new words, sometimes the spread of new sounds and sentence structures across many languages and wide swathes of territory. It outlines the origins and results of contact-induced…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Creoles, Heritage Education
