UID:
edocfu_9959242397402883
Format:
1 online resource (402 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786613600585
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1-280-57098-9
Series Statement:
Language contact and bilingualism ; 2
Content:
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.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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List of contributors --
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Table of contents --
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A multi-model approach to contact-induced language change /
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An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change /
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Contact-induced change as an innovation /
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Language contact in language obsolescence /
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The emergence of a marked-nominative system in Tehuelche or Aonek'o ʔaʔjen: a contact-induced change? /
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On polysemy copying and grammaticalization in language contact /
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The attraction of indefinite articles: on the borrowing of Spanish un in Chamorro /
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On form and function in language contact: a case study from the Amazonian Vaupés region /
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The Basque articles -a and bat and recent contact theories /
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Contact phenomena/code copying in Indian Ocean Creoles: the post-abolition period /
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Grammaticalization of modal auxiliary verbs in Pima Bajo: an internal or a contact-induced change? /
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Contact, convergence, and conjunctions: a cross-linguistic study of borrowing correlations among certain kinds of discourse, phasal adverbial, and dependent clause markers /
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On a Latin-Greek diachronic convergence: the perfects with Latin habeo/Greek échō and a participle /
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Author index --
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Language index --
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Subject index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-027143-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-027133-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783110271430
