@misc{Tristram2005, author = {Tristram, Hildegard L. C.}, title = {Thompson, R., Filipino English and Taglish : language switching from multiple perpectives; Amsterdam, John Benjamins Pub, 2003}, year = {2005}, abstract = {The language situation in the Philipines between the many different native languages and English is complex. The book under review outlines the various contact situations, focussing on the contact between Tagalog, the most important indigenous language of the Philipines on the one hand and English on the other. This serves as the basis for a detailed discussion of the sociological determinasts of the contact continuum between Tagalog on the one hand and Standard English on the other. The main asset of the book is to be found in its well informed survey character resulting from personal teaching experience.}, language = {en} } @misc{Tristram2005, author = {Tristram, Hildegard L. C.}, title = {Kortmann, B. (Hrsg.), Dialectology meets typology : dialect grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective; Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2004}, year = {2005}, abstract = {In previous research, the methodology of typological investigations into languages was based on the analysis of standard languages (or rather standardised written languages). Prof. Kortmann's collection of essays broadens this methodological scope by directing the scholars' typological interest to the traditional dialects, most of them transmitted orally only. Undoubtedly, there is a great potential in this effort. Most of the contributions in this volume, however, show, that the attempt to unify or perhaps rather to accommodate the methodologies of typological research and traditional dialectology needs to be further harmonised in future research in order to bear sound generalisable insights to the rich data available.}, language = {en} }