Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas: Vol I: Maps. Vol II: Texts (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] Book 13)

“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” __Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie__ The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.

“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing– full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.”
Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie

The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America.

The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.

0834_9783110819724_1 1 Australia 1 New Zealand 22 Melanesia (Papua New Guinea) 26 Melanesia (Fiji) 30 Polynesia 32 Metropolitan Language (English) 35 Metropolitan Language (French, including Creoles) 37 Metropolitan Language (Spanish, including Creoles) 39 Metropolitan Language (Portuguese, including Creoles) 40 Metropolitan Language (Dutch and German, including Pidgins) 41 Metropolitan Language (Russian) (also applies to Siberia) 42 Metropolitan Language (Japanese, including Pidgins) 43 Pidgins (General) 45 Pidgins (English) 46 Languages used in the Domain of Religion in Insular Southeast Asia and Oceania 60 Arabic-based and other Contact Languages on Maritime Trade Routes to China 64 South-East Asia (Insular, including Irian Jaya) 66 Philippines 80 Taiwan 84 South-East Asia (Continental) 85 Indian Subcontinent 91 China 94 Mongolia 100 Central Asia 101 Caucasus Area 104 Siberia 106 Arctic Areas 118 Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska 120 United States Area 128 Mexico 130 Central America 134 South America 137 Modern Media in the Pacific Area 144 0834_9783110819724_2_1 176 0834_9783110819724_2_2 1036 Main description: "An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing- full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective." Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general "An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing- full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective." Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut fur Evolutionare Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general. Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented. Volume 1 contains 21 Australian maps which include language contacts in various states and missions, schools and Aboriginal Reserves in New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia; Volume II Part 1 contains twelve articles on language and language contacts in Australia This atlas is based on recent research results on intercultural communcation and contact language situations. Several hybrid languages in China are dealt with and the functions and roads of metropolitan languages and the Pidgins based on them are investigated.