Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change / / ed. by Claudine Chamoreau, Isabelle Léglise.
Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-induced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A variety o...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (393 p.) :; 1 Map |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- List of contributors -- Table of contents -- A multi-model approach to contact-induced language change -- An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change -- Contact-induced change as an innovation -- Language contact in language obsolescence -- The emergence of a marked-nominative system in Tehuelche or Aonek’o ʔaʔjen: a contact-induced change? -- On polysemy copying and grammaticalization in language contact -- The attraction of indefinite articles: on the borrowing of Spanish un in Chamorro -- On form and function in language contact: a case study from the Amazonian Vaupés region -- The Basque articles -a and bat and recent contact theories -- Contact phenomena/code copying in Indian Ocean Creoles: the post-abolition period -- Grammaticalization of modal auxiliary verbs in Pima Bajo: an internal or a contact-induced change? -- Contact, convergence, and conjunctions: a cross-linguistic study of borrowing correlations among certain kinds of discourse, phasal adverbial, and dependent clause markers -- On a Latin-Greek diachronic convergence: the perfects with Latin habeo/Greek échō and a participle -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index |
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Summary: | Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-induced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A variety of explanations are identified and their relationships are analyzed. Only a multifaceted methodology enables this fine-grained approach to contact-induced change. A range of methodologies are proposed, but the chapters generally have their roots in a typological perspective. The contributors recognize the precautionary principle: for example, they emphasize the difficulty of studying languages that have not been described adequately and for which diachronic data are not extensive or reliable. Three main perspectives on contact-induced language change are presented. The first explores the role of multilingual speakers in contact-induced language change, especially their spontaneous innovations in discourse. The second explores the differences between ordinary contact-induced change and change in endangered languages. The third discusses various aspects of the relationship between contact-induced change and internal change. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110271430 9783110238570 9783110238457 9783110636970 9783110742961 9783110288995 9783110288902 9783110288896 |
ISSN: | 2190-698X ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110271430 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Claudine Chamoreau, Isabelle Léglise. |