What can the languages spoken today tell us about the history of their speakers? This question is crucial in insular Southeast Asia and New Guinea, where thousa
This book is a collection of ten case studies on lexical borrowing in Island Southeast Asia and New Guinea, a region where we find all types and levels of borro
**Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the lat
This volume does not offer a complex perspective of the L2 lexicon, but rather represents a sustained attempt to answer some very basic questions clustered arou
What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constra