What is Linguistics? How do languages work? Why is this important? Answering these questions and more, Linguistics: An Introduction covers all the key topics th

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The people who live in the Boumaa region of the Fijian island of Taveuni speak a dialect of Fijian that is mutually intelligible with Standard Fijian, the two d

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