Date : 2016
Editeur / Publisher : Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton , 2016
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 978-1-61451-887-7
Langues australiennes -- Histoire
Langues australiennes -- Linguistique
Langues en contact -- Australie
Collection : Language contact and bilingualism / Editor Yaron Matras / Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton , 2011-
Résumé / Abstract : Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description