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(Hardback)
By: Salikoko S. Mufwene
ISBN: 9780826493699
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.
