Languages of the Athapaskan family were often in contact with languages of other families, and speakers were often bilingual (or multilingual)...
Keywords: areal linguistics, Athapaskan, bilingualism, borrowing, phoneme inventories, language contact
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterThere is no support for Trudgill's thesis. There are languages with exceptionally high numbers of consonants that are spoken by large groups, sometimes by millions as a second language...
Keywords: bilingualism, creole, language contact, mixed languages, phoneme inventories, pidgin, social structure
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterThis article explores the cross-linguistic expression of affect by comparing how the same bilingual speaker displays affect in her two languages...
Keywords: emotion, affect, bilingualism, Narrative, French, Portuguese
09/2004 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter