Colonial linguistics

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2001, Pages 19-39

  Errington, Joseph ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language contact; Language ideology; Philology; Sociolinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040623351     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.19     Document Type: Article

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