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Publication details [#55542]

Naess, Ashild and Mathias Jenny. 2011. Who changes language? Bilingualism and structural change in Burma and the Reef Islands. Journal of language contact 4 : 217–249.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | borrowing | language change | language contact

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This study discusses two cases of contact-induced language change, in respectively Burma and the Reef Islands, where lexical and grammatical borrowing have appeared in opposite directions.