Languages in contact

The partial restructuring of vernaculars

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7901795
AutoresAnthony P Grant (Edge Hill University, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume35
Fascículo2
Páginas297-300
Data de publicação2006-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404506210133
OpenAlexW1965142720
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20

John Holm , Languages in contact: The partial restructuring of vernaculars . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 175. Hb $75.00. The title of this book immediately puts the reader in mind of Weinreich's (1953) classic of the same name, a volume which (a little surprisingly) is not mentioned in the book under review. Though this similarity of title is misleading, both books are notable for their combination of first-hand observation based on solid descriptive work and their impressively well informed accounts of further case studies which illuminate the phenomena their respective authors discuss. It will be understood by any reader who goes beyond the front cover, however, that Holm's focus in this book is more specialized than the title may suggest

Cover (algebra) · Focus (optics) · Front cover · Linguistics · Physics · Political science · Restructuring · Similarity (geometry) · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy