2007

Book Cover For this book, Arnd Nadolny and Joybrato Mukherjee have collected five exciting short stories concerning India. Although specifically designed for use at school, this book offers a compelling read for anyone interested in Indian culture and history.

The editors also provide infoboxes and additional authentic texts for each story and a number of study questions to motivate further work on the subject.

Meher Pestonji, Outsider; Anita Desai, A Devoted Son; Salman Rushdie, Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies and The Free Radio; Bharati Mukherjee, Nostalgia.

Book Cover This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory; synchronic analyses of both morphology and syntax; and diachronic tracings of language change, with special focus on sound patterns as well as semantics. An added value of the volume is that most of the articles are in various ways significant for more than one linguistic subgrouping, and there is a significant overlap of interests; the sections also cover sociolinguistic subjects, give both theoretical and functional linguistic analyses of language data, and discuss issues of grammaticalization. Thus, in discussing a number of issues relevant far beyond the study of pidgin and creole languages, as well as providing a wealth of linguistic data, this volume also contributes to the broader field of linguistics in general.

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Nadolny, Arnd; Mukherjee, Joybrato, eds. 2007. India - Tradition and Change: Five Short Stories. (Schwerpunktthema Abitur Englisch) Berlin: Cornelsen.

Huber, Magnus; Velupillai, Viveka. 2007. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages. Creole Language Library 32. Amsterdam: Benjamins.