Language Contact

LING 435 / 535 (3)


Vallejos Yopán

Examination of various outcomes of language contact from both structural and sociocultural perspectives. It surveys linguistic areas around the world. Topics include: lexical borrowing, grammatical diffusion, the genesis of pidgins, creoles, koines and mixed languages.

Prerequisite: 322 or SPAN 351.



Prerequisites / Corequisites

Grammatical Analysis - LING 322 / 522


Introduction to Spanish Linguistics - SPAN 351



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