The Social Life of Language / / Gillian Sankoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Sankoff, Gillian,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Introduction --; 1. Political Power and Linguistic Inequality in Papua New Guinea --; 2. Language Use in Multilingual Societies: Some Alternate Approaches --; 3. A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence --; 4. Above and Beyond Phonology in Variable Rules --; 5. Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea --; 6. Mutual Intelligibility, Bilingualism, and Linguistic Boundaries --; 7. Wave Versus Stammbaum Explanations of Lexical Similarities --; 8. Cognitive Variability and New Guinea Social Organization: the Buang Dgwa --; 9. Quantitative Analysis of Sharing and Variability in a Cognitive Model --; 10. On the Acquisition of Native Speakers by a Language --; 11. The Origins of Syntax in Discourse: A Case Study of Tok Pisin Relatives --; 12. Variability and Explanation in Language and Culture: Cliticization in New Guinea Tok Pisin --; 13. Anything You Can Do --; 14. The Productive Use of ne in Spoken Montréal French --; 15. The Alternation Between the Auxiliaries avoir and être in Montréal French --; Bibliography --; Indexes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512809589; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512809589
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gillian Sankoff.