Language contact or linguistic micro-engineering? Feature pools, social semiosis, and intentional language change in the Cameroonian Grassfields

With more than seventy named languages, and many more locally distinctive varieties, the Cameroonian Grassfields are known for their impressive linguistic diversity. At the same time, the languages of the Grassfields also show a considerable degree of structural homogeneity and lexical similarity wh...

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Main Authors: Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Jeff Good
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2023-11-01
Series:Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
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Online Access:https://typologyatcrossroads.unibo.it/article/view/17231