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Relatively benign contacts involving urbanization or trade as a contact. This handbook analyzes both language theory and practice, demonstrating the vital role of this research in understanding language use in society. View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library html view download pdf for offline viewing. The oxford handbook of chinese linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multidisciplinary perspective. The oxford handbook of chinese linguistics edited by william sy.
Exciting work is now emerging on the kinds of processes that might shape grammar in contact situations heine and kuteva 2003, 2005, 2010 on replica. The handbook of language contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages. Personal or student reference i refer students to this publication for new research articles or for my work. Recent publications include the handbook of second language acquisition, coedited with catherine doughty wileyblackwell, 2003, second language needs analysis 2005, and problems in second language acquisition 2007. The first edition was published in 1997, focusing, as stated in the preface, on the interface of logic and linguistics, showing how a substantial body of insights and techniques had developed about natural language through cooperation, and sometimes competition between various approaches. Doughty the handbook of language contact edited by raymond hickey the handbook of language and speech disorders edited by jack s. Although multilingualism and language contact between individuals and groups are age old, language contact research first obtained a secure position in applied linguistics in the 1970s through the development of the social sciences. Identifying and using action and helping verbs exercise a 1.
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