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AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTACT LINGUISTICS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2005

Elizabeth Grace Winkler
Elizabeth Grace Winkler
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University of Arizona
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AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTACT LINGUISTICS. Donald Winford. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. xvii + 416. $77.95 cloth, $38.95 paper.

Winford begins with a thorough review of the literature on language contact and an outline of the areas of dispute—for instance, challenges to the family tree view of language change and the resistance of many to accept explanations for change that are not internally motivated. He believes that more debate is necessary concerning the degree of language mixing in all languages and laments the continued belief held by some historical linguists that contact-induced change plays little—if any—role in change.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 484 - 485
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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Thomason, S., & Kaufman, T. (1988). Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics. Berkeley: University of California Press.