The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars: Language Contact and Change

by Enoch Oladé Aboh

Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this study of creole languages, Enoch Olad Aboh addresses this question, arguing that language acquisition requires contact between different linguistic sub-systems that feed into the hybrid grammars that learners develop. There is no qualitative difference between a child learning their language in a multilingual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521150221
• ISBN13: 9780521150224
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"