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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      August 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511612862
      9780521791380
      9780521794756
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511612862
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 274 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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    Subjects:
    Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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    This major 2001 work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book discusses the nature and significance of internal and external factors or 'ecologies' that bear on the evolution of a language. The book surveys a wide range of examples of changes in the structure, function and vitality of languages, and suggests that similar ecologies have played the same kinds of roles in all cases of language evolution. Drawing on major theories of language formation, macroecology and population genetics, Mufwene proposes a common approach to the development of creoles and other new languages. The Ecology of Language Evolution will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, creolistics, theoretical linguistics and theories of evolution.

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    "Mufwene's proposals will undoubtedly interest linguists and theorists of evolution alike." Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis

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