Martin Krämer, Underlying representations (Key Topics in Phonology). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. x+266.

Carol Myers-Scotton, Duelling languages: Grammatical structure in Code-swithing. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. Pp. xiv, 263. Hb £30.00, $45.00.

Review of Gardani, Arkadiev & Amiridze (2015 [2014]): Borrowed morphology

The birth of language ecology: interdisciplinary influences in Einar Haugen's “The ecology of language”

Abstract Einar Haugen is generally regarded as the founding father of ‘language ecology’ or ‘ecology of language’. In his classic 1971 paper, he suggested that “[l]anguage ecology may be defined as the study of interactions between any given language and its environment”. After tracing the roots of language ecology in the social sciences and biology and the use of similar locutions by other linguists before him, the present paper discusses major conceptual and theoretical issues surrounding his proposal. Fundamental discrepancies between how the concept of ecology is understood in biology and sociology, on the one hand, and the attempted application to language, on the other, render details…

Lyle Campbell & William J. Poser, Language Classification: History and Method. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 536.

REVIEWS - Barbara E. Bullock & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of linguistic code-switching (Cambridge Handbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xv+422.

Bert Vaux & Andrew Nevins (eds.), Rules, constraints, and phonological phenomena. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. ix+339.