Language contact : new perspectives / edited by Muriel Norde, Bob de Jonge, Cornelius Hasselblatt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hasselblatt, Cornelius.

Jonge, Bob de.

Norde, Muriel, 1968-

Series:

Impact, studies in language and society ; v. 28.

IMPACT: studies in language and society, 1385-7908 ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact.

Languages, Mixed.

Physical Description:

vi, 225 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new contact situations. This volume features ten papers on various aspects of language contact by leading specialists in the field. In these papers, contact-induced change in a wide variety of languages is approached from various perspectives, reflecting the current state of affairs in language contact studies. The first main theme in the volume is related to the linguistic effects of migration, both in the present and in the past, and both in the standard language spoken by ethnic minorities, and in immigrant languages that are influenced by the standard. The second theme concerns border areas, a traditional treasure trove for the study of contact phenomena. The third theme is about contact effects without physical contact, as well as the role played by translators in this process.

Contents:

Introduction / Cornelius Hasselblatt, Bob de Jonge and Muriel Norde

Ethnolects as a multidimensional phenomenon / Pieter Muysken

Applying language technology to detect shift effects / John Nerbonne ... [et al.]

Generational differences in pronominal usage in Spanish reflecting language and dialect contact in a bilingual setting / Ricardo Otheguy, Ana Celia Zentella and David Livert

Personal pronoun variation in language contact: Estonian in the United States / Piibi-Kai Kivik

Turkish in the Netherlands: development of a new variety? / A. Seza Dogruöz and Ad Backus

The reflection of historical language contact in present-day Dutch and Swedish / Charlotte Gooskens, Renée van Bezooijen and Sebastian Kürschner

The impact of German on Schleife Sorbian: The use of gor in the Eastern Sorbian border dialect / Hélène B. Brijnen

Detecting contact effects in pronunciation / Wilbert Heeringa, John Nerbonne and Petya Osenova

Language contact and phonological contrast: the case of coronal affricates in Japanese loans / Jason Shaw and Rahul Balusu

Translating cultures within the EU / Nicola Borrelli

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612558641

9781282558649

1282558641

9789027288431

9027288437

OCLC:

615631416