Tell your friends about this item:
Merchants of Innovation: The Languages of Traders - Studies in Language Change [SLC]
Merchants of Innovation: The Languages of Traders - Studies in Language Change [SLC]
This volume suggests a clear cross-linguistic tendency that mercantile writing displays a greater degree of language mixing, code-switching and linguistic innovation, and, by setting such precedents, promote language change.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 8, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781501511608 |
| Publishers | De Gruyter |
| Pages | 283 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 532 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Beinhoff, Bettina |
| Editor | Outhwaite, Ben |
| Editor | Wagner, Esther-Miriam |