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Publication details [#26368]
Silva-Corvalán, Carmen. 1994. language contact and change. Spanish in Los Angeles. (Oxford Studies in Language Contact). Clarendon Press. XIV+255 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This study on the effects of intense societal bilingualism on language structure, drawing on corpus data collected in the predominantly Hispanic area of East Los Angeles, shows that innovations are never allowed to cause radical changes in the pre-existing systems.