Böcker av Salikoko S. Mufwene

Examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection. This work looks at such themes as: natural selection in language; the actuation question and the invisible hand that drives evolution; multilingualism and language contact; and, language birth and language death.

Exploring the many different contact points between Iberian colonialism and indigenous cultures, this title features contributors who identify the crucial parameters of language evolution that have led to today's state of linguistic diversity in Latin America.

This summary provides a description of African American English (AAE). It presents new research, so that AAE is examined not only in terms of what distinguishes it from other varieties of English. In twelve chapters this book covers the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics of AAE.