This major new 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 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. 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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This major new 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 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. 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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This chapter is written primarily to clarify concepts such as "ecology," "evolution," and "language," which are central to the book. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noncreole languages, homestead phase, language speciation, genetic creolistics, same lexifier, genetic linguists, rapid population replacement, ethnographic ecology, ethnographic ecologies, basilectal features, creole origins hypothesis, linguistic species, language bioprogram hypothesis, relevant creoles, restructured varieties, indigenized varieties, new language varieties, colonization styles, language endangerment, metropolitan dialects, new language variety, creole vernaculars, creole kin, nonstandard vernaculars, colonial varieties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Founder Principle, American English, North America, Native Americans, New World, South Carolina, British Isles, African Americans, British English, South Africa, Vulgar Latin, Old English, Universal Grammar, Irish English, North Africa, United States, Atlantic English, Guyanese Creole, Berbice Dutch, New England, Caribbean English, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Creole, Sao Tomense, European Americans New!
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This chapter is written primarily to clarify concepts such as "ecology," "evolution," and "language," which are central to the book. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noncreole languages, homestead phase, language speciation, genetic creolistics, same lexifier, genetic linguists, rapid population replacement, ethnographic ecology, ethnographic ecologies, basilectal features, creole origins hypothesis, linguistic species, language bioprogram hypothesis, relevant creoles, restructured varieties, indigenized varieties, new language varieties, colonization styles, language endangerment, metropolitan dialects, new language variety, creole vernaculars, creole kin, nonstandard vernaculars, colonial varieties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Founder Principle, American English, North America, Native Americans, New World, South Carolina, British Isles, African Americans, British English, South Africa, Vulgar Latin, Old English, Universal Grammar, Irish English, North Africa, United States, Atlantic English, Guyanese Creole, Berbice Dutch, New England, Caribbean English, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Creole, Sao Tomense, European Americans New!
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- The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics (Routledge Companions) by Carmen Llamas in Front Matter, page 184, and Back Matter
- Dynamics of Language Contact: English and Immigrant Languages (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) by Michael Clyne in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- An Introduction to Contact Linguistics (Language in Society) by Donald Winford in Back Matter
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- New-Dialect Formation: The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes by Peter Trudgill in Back Matter
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