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Examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection. This work looks at such themes as: natural selection in language; the actuation question and the invisible hand that drives evolution; multilingualism and language contact; and, language birth and language death.

@book{mufwene08book,
  author={Salikoko S. Mufwene},
  title={Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change},
  year={2008},
  month={May},
  publisher={Continuum International Publishing Group},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/mufwene08book.html}
}