Languages in Contact: The High Stakes of Grammatical Border-Crossing

CAS LX 345

Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) or consent of instructor. - Examines the mechanisms and outcomes of language contact by surveying cases around the globe from the past and present. Topics include lexical-borrowing, code- switching, pidgins and creoles, language death, and the emergence of entirely new language systems.

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