The mixed language debate [electronic resource] : theoretical and empirical advances /

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. .

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'รก / Maarten Mous -- Can a mixed language be conventionalized alternational codeswitching? / Ad Backus -- Not quite the right mixture / Thomas Stolz.


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Languages, Mixed.
Languages in contact.


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