Contact linguistics : bilingual encounters and grammatical outcomes / Carol Myers-Scotton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers-Scotton, Carol.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact.

Bilingualism.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

xiv, 342 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Contents:

1.2. General premises in the theoretical orientation 8

1.3. The Matrix Language Frame model and its setting 10

1.4. The 4-M model 16

1.5. The Abstract Level model 18

1.6. Implications for a model of language production 23

1.7. How proficiency figures in 25

1.8. Competence and performance 26

1.10. The coming chapters 28

2. The Roots of Language Contact 30

2.2. Factors favoring adding a language 31

2.3. Bilingual competence 33

2.4. The costs and rewards of bilingualism in the international arena 33

2.5. Motivations to become bilingual 36

2.6. Bilingualism and language-use patterns 40

2.7. Language shift 48

2.8. Structural results of bilingualism and language shift 51

3. Explaining the Models and Their Uses 53

3.2. Clarifying the MLF model 54

3.3. Content vs. system morphemes 69

3.4. What the 4-M model adds 73

3.5. The MLF model plus the 4-M model: revisiting classic codeswitching 86

3.6. The Abstract Level model further explicated 96

3.7. Codeswitching and convergence 104

4. Considering Problematic Codeswitching Data and Other Approaches 108

4.2. Bare forms 113

4.3. Nouns and their determiners when Arabic is the Matrix Language 113

4.4. Another view: Uniform structure 119

4.5. Bare nouns without Bantu noun-class prefixes 127

4.6. Explaining other codeswitching phenomena with the Uniform Structure Principle 131

4.7. Other lexical categories and system morphemes 132

4.8. Another case of bare elements: the 'do' construction 134

4.9. About Embedded Language islands 139

4.10. Borrowing vs. codeswitching 153

5. Convergence and Attrition 164

5.2. Convergence areas 173

5.3. Individual attrition: a social and psycholinguistic view 179

5.4. An overview of attrition studies 184

5.5. Supporting my own theoretical assumptions 193

6. Lexical Borrowing, Split (Mixed) Languages, and Creole Formation 233

6.2. Lexical borrowing 234

6.3. Mixed languages > split languages 246

6.4. Michif 254

6.5. Mednyj Aleut 258

6.6. Ma'a (Mbugu) 265

6.7. Summary: mixed/split languages 270

6.8. Creole formation 271

6.9. Conclusion: from lexical borrowing to creole formation 293

7. Concluding Remarks: The Out of Sight in Contact Linguistics 295

7.2. Hypotheses for further testing 296

7.3. Lexical borrowing and codeswitching 299

7.4. Content morphemes 299

7.5. Early system morphemes 300

7.6. Late system morphemes 301

7.7. Multimorphemic elements 305

7.8. Insufficient congruence 306

7.9. Change in frame requirements 306

7.10. Levels of abstract lexical structure 307

7.11. Split (mixed) languages 307

7.12. Creole formation 308.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-329) and indexes.

ISBN:

0198299524

0198299532

OCLC:

48532853