Journal Article10.1017/S0047404506210133
Languages in contact: The partial restructuring of vernaculars
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TL;DR: Holm's focus in this book is more specialized than the title may suggest this paper, however, it will be understood by any reader who goes beyond the front cover, however, that Holm's main focus in this paper was more specialized.
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Abstract: John Holm, Languages in contact: The partial restructuring of vernaculars. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 175. Hb $75.00.The title of this book immediately puts the reader in mind of Weinreich's (1953) classic of the same name, a volume which (a little surprisingly) is not mentioned in the book under review. Though this similarity of title is misleading, both books are notable for their combination of first-hand observation based on solid descriptive work and their impressively well informed accounts of further case studies which illuminate the phenomena their respective authors discuss. It will be understood by any reader who goes beyond the front cover, however, that Holm's focus in this book is more specialized than the title may suggest.
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