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"The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of articles on the cross-cultural and transnational linguistic convergence and change of the English language. Now in its second edition, this Handbook brings together multiple theoretical, contextual, and ideological perspectives…
Acknowledgements -- Linguistic imperialism: an introductory encyclopedia entry -- 1. The study of continued linguistic imperialism -- 2. English in the new world order: variations on a theme of linguistic imperialism and 'world' English -- 3. Language policy and linguistic imper…
Language dispersal beyond farming
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Farming/language dispersal : food for thought / Martine Robbeets -- Proto-Quechua and proto-Aymara agropastoral terms : reconstruction and contact patterns / Nicholas Q. Emlen and Willem F. H. Adelaar -- Subsistence terms in Unangam Tunuu (Aleut) / Anna Berge -- Lexical recyclin…
"Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world's major language families owe their dispersal to the …
The notion of empire is associated with economic and political mechanisms of dominance. For the last decades, however, there has been a lively debate concerning the question whether this concept can be transferred to the field of linguistics, specifically to research on situatio…
