From linguistic areas to areal linguistics explores language description and typology in terms of areal background, presenting case studies in areal linguistics

Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whils

The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyze the process of convergence, and introduce methods to as

Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative langua

In contrast to many other levels of language, there is as yet no comprehensive areal-linguistic description of the segmental phonological properties of the lang