Language Contact And Documentation Contacto Linguistico Y Documentacion

Download or read book Language Contact and Documentation / Contacto lingüístico y documentación written by Bernard Comrie and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is highly relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languages, language contact, documentation and areal typology. The publication is the outcome of a fruitful theoretical and methodological exchange between Latin American scholars and international scholars working in other regions. Most of the papers target Latin American languages. Additionally, new insight into the contact situations in Indonesia, Iran, Australia and Papua New Guinea is provided.