Dynamics of contact-induced language change /
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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De Gruyter Mouton,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
Publication Dates: | [2012] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Language contact and bilingualism [lcb] ;
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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-g |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (401pages): illustrations. |
ISBN: | 9783110271430(electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | P40 |
CLC: | H0 |
Contents: |
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 a jen: 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 Vaup s 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 ch and a participle -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index |