Questioning language contact : : limits of contact, contact at its limits / / edited by Robert Nicolaï.

• TeilnehmendeR: Nicolaï, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Studies in Language Contact and Dynamics of Language 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.; Includes index.

This volume critically exposes problems in present language contact analysis and uses empirical findings to provide answers to the following questions. What can we learn from the study of language contact for our knowledge of languages, their dynamics and their functions (systemic elaborations, lang...