Publications
Publication details [#18014]
Bakker, Peter and Maarten Mous, eds. 1994. Mixed languages: 15 case studies in language intertwining. (Studies in language and language use 13). Institute for Functional Research into Language and language Use. viii + 244 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Aleut, Mednyj | Amarna-Akkadian | Callahuaya | Carib, Island | Frisian, Town | Ilwana | Javindo | KiMwani | Ma'a/Mbugu | Maltese | Media Lengua | Michif | Petjo | Romani, mixed dialects | Shelta
Annotation
This collection of papers on two-language mixtures that are sufficiently conventionalized and stable to be called languages, demonstrates the widespread occurrence of such mixtures, although for social -not linguistic- reasons they rarely become a community's main language.
