The handbook of language contact / edited by Raymond Hickey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hickey, Raymond, 1954-

Series:

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Languages in contact.

Areal linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (942 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field - ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology - combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages. * An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interact * Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars * Examines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world * Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society * Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics

Contents:

""Praise for The Handbook of Language Contact""; ""Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment""; ""1 Recent Studies of Language Contact""; ""2 Generalizations Concerning Contact""; ""3 Terminology in Contact Studies""; ""4 Conclusion""; ""Part I: Contact and Linguistics""; ""1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics""; ""1 Some Background Concepts""; ""2 Contact Explanations and Internal Explanations of Change: Social Predictors""

""3 Contact Explanations and Internal Explanations of Change: Linguistic Predictors""""4 Conclusion""; ""2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 What Do We Mean by the Genetic Classification of Languages?""; ""3 Models of Language Families in Genetic Linguistics""; ""4 Genetic Classification and Language Contact""; ""5 Language Contact and Speciation""; ""6 Final Thoughts""; ""3 Contact, Convergence, and Typology""; ""1 A Definition of Contact""; ""2 Convergence""; ""3 Convergence and Typological Change""

""4 Typology and Generalizations on Contact-Induced Change""""5 Conclusion""; ""4 Contact and Grammaticalization""; ""1 Introduction: Contact-Induced Grammaticalization""; ""2 Process versus Product""; ""3 Ordinary versus Replica Grammaticalization""; ""4 Grammaticalization versus Polysemy Copying""; ""5 Propelling versus Accelerating Forces in Language Contact""; ""6 Grammaticalization Areas""; ""7 Change in Typological Profile""; ""8 Constraints on Contact-Induced Grammatical Change""; ""9 Sociolinguistic versus Linguistic Factors""; ""10 Conclusions""

""5 Language Contact and Grammatical Theory""""1 Introduction: The Research Context""; ""2 Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Change and the Generative Model""; ""3 Case Studies""; ""4 Conclusion""; ""6 Computational Models and Language Contact""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Loanwords and the Lexicon""; ""3 Phonetics and Phonology""; ""4 Morphosyntax""; ""5 Looking Forward""; ""Part II: Contact and Change""; ""7 Contact and Language Shift""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 What Can Be Traced to Contact?""; ""3 The Search for Categorial Equivalence""; ""4 The Prosody of Transfer""

""5 Coincidental Parallels""""6 What Does Not Get Transferred?""; ""7 Interpreting Vernacular Features""; ""8 The Influence of English on Contemporary Irish""; ""9 Conclusion""; ""8 Contact and Borrowing""; ""1 Defining Borrowing""; ""2 Lexical Borrowing""; ""3 Integration of Loanwords""; ""4 Borrowing of Structural Elements""; ""5 Constraints on Borrowing of Overt Elements""; ""6 Linguistic Constraints on Borrowing""; ""7 Constraints on Borrowing of Structural Elements""; ""8 Is There Borrowing of Structural Patterns?""; ""9 Borrowing and Other Contact Phenomena""

""10 Borrowing and Classic Code-Switching""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613615619

9781118448694

1118448693

9781280585784

1280585781

9781118448687

1118448685

9781405197113

1405197110

9781444318159

1444318152

9781444318166

1444318160

OCLC:

793995908