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Languages in contact: The partial restructuring of vernaculars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2006

Anthony P. Grant
Anthony P. Grant
Affiliation:
Department of English, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England L39 4QX, [email protected]
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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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BOOK REVIEWS
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Language in Society , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 297 - 300
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Weinreich, Uriel. (1953). Languages in contact: Findings and problems. New York: Linguistic Circle of New York. Repr. 1968, The Hague: Mouton.