Contact

Li Wei
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Contact is an important factor in language use, language maintenance, language variation, and language change. There is a cliché in linguistics that language is a living thing. But a moment’s thought makes it clear that it is the user who gives language life. Language grows as the user grows; it varies and changes as the user varies and changes; it also dies as the user dies. Language contact is therefore contact between users of different languages.

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