Languages in contact and contrast : essays in contact linguistics / edited by Vladimir Ivir, Damir Kalogjera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ivir, Vladimir.

Kalogjera, Damir.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact.

Contrastive linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (516 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The papers in this collection throw fresh light on the relation between language contact and contrastive linguistics. The book focuses equally on the mutual influence of linguistic systems in contact and on the language contrasts that govern the linguistic behaviour of the bilingual speaker.

Contents:

Front matter

The European absolute superlative, an orphan of grammar, of the lexicon, and of history / Austerlitz, Robert

West European loanwords in Modern Latvian / Baldunčiks, Juris

A hypothesis: the notion of "multibehavior" / Bantaş, Andrei

Fact or not fact - that is the question in the semantic interpretation of gerundive nominals / Berndt, Rolf

Odmah - a shifter of Serbo-Croatian in intralingual and contrastive perspective / Birnbaum, Henrik

Language contact: some reactions of a contactee / Brown, Wayles

Contrastive analysis of terminology and the terminology of contrastive analysis / Bugarski, Ranko

South Slavic terms for conjurors and sorcerers / Conrad, Joseph L.

Some notes on a Bulgarian model of expanded contrastive analysis / Danchev, Andrei

A. P. Chekhov's short story Šutočka and two Serbo-Croat translations: The problem of translation versus interpretation / Davidsson, Carin

Theoretical contrastive linguistics and typological characterization / Dezső, László

Interradical interfixes: contact and contrast / Dressler, Wolfgang Ulrich / Merlini Barbaresi, Lavinia

Some remarks on Middle-English influence in Icelandic / Eiríksson, Eyvindur

An outline of a cognitively-based model of phonology / Eliasson, Stig

Cartoons about language: a case study of the visual representation of sociolinguistic attitudes / Fishman, Joshua A.

Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms, New Zealandisms, and Anglicisms in contemporary German / Galinsky, Hans

Language contact in the prehistory of English / Hamp, Eric P.

Collocations in monolingual and bilingual English dictionaries / Hausmann, Franz Josef

Contrastive methods in contact linguistics / Ivir, Vladimir

The "monitor model" and the role of the first language / James, Carl

On the form and meaning of the Serbo-Croatian modal morati / Kalogjera, Damir

Reasons and opportunities for communication in the foreign-language and second-language classroom / Lee, William R.

Between language contact and language development / Maček, Dora

The lexicon of the Split dialect / Magner, Thomas F.

Zu Phrasemvarianten in der kroatischen Sprache / Matešić, Josip

Dictionary making: the ideal versus reality / Monson, Samuel C.

Vokalsysteme in Kontakt. Was verdankt der vegliotische Vokalismus der slawo-romanischen Symbiose? / Muljačić, Žarko

The designation of spherical objects in five European languages: an essay in contrastive semantics / Nehls, Dietrich

A case of multilingualism in Eastern Belgium / Nelde, Peter H.

Language contact and foreign language acquisition / Nemser, William

On the struggle of underlying vowels for a voice in surface phonetic structure / Ridjanović, Midhat

English in Finnish: television subtitles / Sajavaara, Kari

Politeness strategies and contrastive foreign language teaching / Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana

On revived words in the OED Supplement / Sørensen, Knud

Common features in the morphological adaptation of English loanwords in migrant Serbo-Croatian / Stoffel, Hans-Peter

Linguistic models and information theory / Thomas, Owen

Language contact and code-switching in the bilingual personality / Titone, Renzo

Contrastive reflexes in contact linguistics / Tomić, Olga Mišeska

Transfer grammar: from machine translation to pedagogical tool / Troike, Rudolph C.

Encouraging the development of bilingual proficiency for English-speaking Americans / Tucker, G. Richard

A contemporary view on the compromise system of Serbo-Croatian learners of English / Vilke, Mirjana

Croatian and Serbian church communities in Milwaukee / Ward, Charles A.

Subject index

Back matter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110869118

311086911X

OCLC:

843635440