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Publication details [#37559]

Siegel, Jeff. 1985. Koines and koineization. Language in Society 14 (3) : 357–378.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creole | language contact | language mixing | pidgin | social psychology

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper investigates different definitions and usages of the term 'koine' and 'koineization' in the literature and suggests a more exact usage in the context of language contact and mixing between linguistic subsystems.