Language Contact and Change
Carmen Silva-Corvalan(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 1. April 1994
Book
Hardback
270 pages
978-0-19-824287-1 (ISBN)
Description
Languages in a situation of contact, whether they are receding or being maintained by their speakers, are characterized by constant and rapid change. Thus they provide a testing ground for hypotheses about processes of linguistic change. In this study of an intergenerational sample of Spanish-English bilinguals in Los Angeles County, Carmen Silva-Corvalan explores in depth the linguistic, cognitive, and social processes underlying language maintenance, as well as changes characteristic of language shift and loss, bringing together analytical techniques employed in sociolinguistics, functional syntax, and discourse analysis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-824287-1 (9780198242871)
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