Boundaries and Bridges

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Boundaries and Bridges is written by Kofi Yakpo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501501143 (ISBN 10) and 9781501501142 (ISBN 13).

Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it probably represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change. This book presents fascinating cases of multidirectional contact and convergence between highly diverse languages in an emerging linguistic area in Suriname and the Guianas and proposes a framework for comparable studies.