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Access, prestige and losses in contact languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2013

MIKAEL PARKVALL*
Affiliation:
Institutionen för lingvistik, Stockholms universitetparkvall@ling.su.se

Extract

I am generally positive about Muysken's (M) approach, and the potential use of unifying various seemingly related phenomena is obvious. The approach could also serve as a tool in determining to what extent these phenomena actually are sides of the same coin (I am somewhat less convinced of this than most contact linguists).

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Peer Commentaries
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