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Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
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Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change.
Review
— Paul J. Hopper, American Anthropologist
“For the integration of contact-induced language change into historical linguistics this book constitutes the greatest breakthrough since Uriel Weinreich’s Languages in Contact of 1953, and I am convinced it will be the touchstone for the further development of the discipline for years to come.”
— Edgar W. Schneider, English World-Wide
“[A] major work. . . . In scope and breadth of conception there is simply no other discussion of language contact that approaches it.”
— Jay H. Jasanoff, Language
About the Author
Sarah Grey Thomason is Professor of Linguistics and Terrence Kaufman is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh.