The mixed language debate  theoretical and empirical advances /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker. 
 - Berlin ;  New York :  Mouton de Gruyter,  c2003. 
 - vi, 325 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;  145 .
 - Trends in linguistics.  Studies and monographs ;  145. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2009. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Languages, Mixed.<br/>Languages in contact.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PM7802  / .M59 2003eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>417/.22