Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Founder Principle in the development of creoles
- 3 The development of American Englishes: factoring contact in and the social bias out
- 4 The legitimate and illegitimate offspring of English
- 5 What research on the development of creoles can contribute to genetic linguistics
- 6 Language contact, evolution, and death: how ecology rolls the dice
- 7 Past and recent population movements in Africa: their impact on its linguistic landscape
- 8 Conclusions: the big picture
- Notes
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Founder Principle in the development of creoles
- 3 The development of American Englishes: factoring contact in and the social bias out
- 4 The legitimate and illegitimate offspring of English
- 5 What research on the development of creoles can contribute to genetic linguistics
- 6 Language contact, evolution, and death: how ecology rolls the dice
- 7 Past and recent population movements in Africa: their impact on its linguistic landscape
- 8 Conclusions: the big picture
- Notes
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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- The Ecology of Language Evolution , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001