This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, rangi
In John McWhorter’s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable
Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume a thematic selection of papers fr
This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred yea