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The mixed language debate [electronic resource] : theoretical and empirical advances / edited by Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker.

Contributor(s): Matras, Yaron, 1963- | Bakker, Peter | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Trends in linguistics: 145.Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2003Description: vi, 325 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Languages, Mixed | Languages in contactGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 417/.22 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The study of mixed languages / Yaron Matras and Peter Bakker -- Social factors and linguistic processes in the emergence of stable mixed languages / Sarah G. Thomason -- Mixed languages and acts of identity / William Croft -- What lies beneath: split (mixed) languages as contact phenomena / Carol Myers-Scotton -- Mixed languages as autonomous systems / Peter Bakker -- Mixed languages: re-examining the structural prototype / Yaron Matras -- Language contact and group identity: the role of "folk" linguistic engineering / Evgeniy V. Golovko -- The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation and its relevance for Ma'á / Maarten Mous -- Can a mixed language be conventionalized alternational codeswitching? / Ad Backus -- Not quite the right mixture / Thomas Stolz.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The study of mixed languages / Yaron Matras and Peter Bakker -- Social factors and linguistic processes in the emergence of stable mixed languages / Sarah G. Thomason -- Mixed languages and acts of identity / William Croft -- What lies beneath: split (mixed) languages as contact phenomena / Carol Myers-Scotton -- Mixed languages as autonomous systems / Peter Bakker -- Mixed languages: re-examining the structural prototype / Yaron Matras -- Language contact and group identity: the role of "folk" linguistic engineering / Evgeniy V. Golovko -- The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation and its relevance for Ma'á / Maarten Mous -- Can a mixed language be conventionalized alternational codeswitching? / Ad Backus -- Not quite the right mixture / Thomas Stolz.

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