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This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. This is an essential text for courses on African-American English and an important reference for students of linguistics, black studies and anthropology.

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. This is an essential text for courses on African-American English and an important reference for students of linguistics, black studies and anthropology.

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.

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

This major 2001 work explores the development of creoles and other new languages.

This collection of papers, based upon a Round Table meeting sponsored by the National Science Foundation, deals with creole and Afro-American linguistics. In particular, it emphasises the way in which African substrate languages contribute to the structure of creoles and semi-creoles.

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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.