Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Borrowing 17
5. Contact linguistics 36
6. Creoles and creolization 46
7. Dialect 61
8. Dialectology 73
9. Evolutionary pragmatics 81
10. Historical linguistics 100
11. Historical pragmatics 110
12. Implicature and language change 123
13. Interlanguage pragmatics 141
14. Jargon 155
15. Language change 171
16. Language contact 203
17. Reconstruction 215
18. Register 221
19. Typology 234
20. Variational pragmatics 239
21. Index 268