New Perspectives On Mixed Languages Maria Mazzoli Eeva Sippola by Maria Mazzoli, Eeva Sippola instant download after payment.

Mixed languages present an intriguing type of language contact.
They arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of identity or as
secret languages, and they combine parts from different
language families or branches, showing unique splits that
challenge theories of genetic classification and contact-induced
change. →Thomason and Kaufman (1988) identified mixed
languages as a type of contact language in its own right, and
since then, research on mixed languages has grown into a
subfield of contact linguistics (→Bakker and Mous 1994;
→Matras and Bakker 2003). So far, around forty languages from
diverse backgrounds have been identified as “mixed”
(→Meakins 2013: 161–164). However, the status of many
varieties is unclear. This volume examines the current state of
the theoretical and empirical debate on mixed languages and
presents new descriptive advances from a diverse set of mixed
language varieties.