Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages
influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and …

A Survey of Modern English covers a wide selection of aspects of the modern English
language. Fully revised and updated, the major focus of the third edition lies in Standard …

Foreigners often say that English language is" easy." A language like Spanish is challenging
in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and …

Synopsis Organizado pelos professores Dante Lucchesi e Ilza Ribeiro, da Universidade
Federal da Bahia, e pelo professor Allan Baxter, da Universidade de Macau, teve a …

Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of
languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin …

English as a global lingua franca interacts with other languages across a wide range of
multilingual contexts. Combining insights from linguistics, education studies, and …

Title description Singapore English: A grammatical description provides a vivid account of
current, contemporary Singapore English, complementing older seminal accounts of this …

The most cursory glance at linguistic publications in the past few decades reveals a wealth
of literature on language contact: articles, monographs, edited volumes, special issues of …