Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts - Hardback - 2009

Discusses the role of two major factors shaping the grammars of different varieties of English and of other languages all over the world: socalled vernacular universals and contactinduced change. This book focuses on putative universal vernacular features.
Year of publication: 2009
Pagination: 392 pages, 55 black white illustrations, 33 black white tables, 26 black white halftones, 29 b
Format: Hardback
Serie: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics