Contact Explanations in Linguistics

Handbook of Language Contact

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 29-47

  Thomason, Sarah ^a  

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Author keywords

Contact explanations and internal explanations of change social predictors; Contact explanations in linguistics; Establishing external causes of change proving especially difficult; Language contact invoking increasing frequency over three decades; Language contact, responsible for lexical changes and minor structural changes; Lexical substitution in languages of Papua New Guinea; Linguistic predictors; Motivation for appealing to a mystery language; Value of contact explanations in linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885491829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318159.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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