This volume is at the cross-roads between two research traditions dealing with language change: contact linguistics and language variation and change. It starts

At present, much of the research on bilingual cognition focuses on late second language learners of a small number of languages. In this fascinating book, Evang

This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structur

Identity and Dialect Performance discusses the relationship between identity and dialects. It starts from the assumption that the use of dialect is not just a p

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