The Ecology of Language Evolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521794756)

This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book surveys a wide range of examples of changes in the structure, function and vitality of languages, and suggests that similar ecologies have played the same kinds of roles in all cases of language evolution. The Ecology of Language Evolution will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, creolistics, theoretical linguistics and theories of evolution.

Author: Salikoko S. Mufwene
ISBN-10: 0521794757
ISBN-13: 9780521794756
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2001
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d