Abstract
Languages do not spread in a vacuum. They are not self-contained linguistic events but contingent on the history or prehistory more broadly, as Heggarty (2015:600) describes it, the result of: processes in the real-world context - demographic growth or collapse, migrations, conquest, or more subtle socio-political and cultural changes - are the cause; they alone determine entirely the linguistic effects of divergence, diversity and convergence.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Language Land & Song: Studies in Honour of Luise Hercus |
| Editors | P K Austin, H Koch & J Simpson |
| Place of Publication | London, United Kingdom |
| Publisher | EL Publishing |
| Pages | 330-341pp |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780728604063 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |