Language contact : theoretical and empirical studies / edited by Ernst Hakon Jahr.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Jahr, Ernst Håkon, 1948-

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 60

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 1861-4302 ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--Congresses.

Languages in contact.

Sociolinguistics--Congresses.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

234 p. : ill.

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Language Contact".

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Language contacts between Southern Sami and Scandinavian / Bergsland, Knut

A contact feature in the phonology of a northern Norwegian dialect / Bull, Tove

The social and linguistic development of Scandoromani / Hancock, Ian

Language contact in the Pacific: Samoan influence on Tokelauan / Hovdhaugen, Even

"You can never tell where a word comes from": language contact in a diffuse setting / Page, Robert B. Le

The substratum in grammar and discourse / Mithun, Marianne

Dialect socialization in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Spitsbergen): a fruitful chaos / Mæhlum, Brit

Ethnolinguistic minorities within the European community: migrants as ethnolinguistic minorities / Nelde, Peter H.

Isolation, contact, and lexical variation in a tribal setting / Rischel, Jørgen

Language contact in focused situations / Tabouret-Keller, Andrée

Dialect typology and social structure / Trudgill, Peter

Borrowing and non-borrowing in Walapai / Winter, Werner

Subject Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Contains papers from the fifth International Troms Symposium on Language held at the University of Troms in September 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110851847

3110851849

OCLC:

979784578