The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics |
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| Editor:
| Hickey, Raymond |
| Series title: | Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-107-05161-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2017 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $163.00 |
Book Description:
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This book offers a linguistically informed account of language contact and change, focussing on how language comes to cluster in certain geographical areas. It will be of interest to those working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, enabling the reader to understand areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.
This book offers a linguistically informed account of language contact and change, focussing on how language comes to cluster in certain geographical areas. It will be of interest to those working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, enabling the reader to understand areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.