Congruence in contact-induced language change : language families, typological resemblance, and perceived similarity / edited by Juliane Besters-Dilger [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Besters-Dilger, Juliane., Editor.

Series:

linguae & litterae

Lingua & litterae ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In der aktuellen Kontaktlinguistik wurden überwiegend Sprachen in Kontakt betrachtet, die genetisch nicht verwandt und strukturell distant sind. Der vorliegende Sammelband setzt sich zum Ziel, mit einem Schwerpunkt im Bereich der romanischen und slavischen Sprachen die Bedeutung von bereits zu Beginn des Kontakts vorhandenen Effekten der strukturellen Kongruenz zwischen den beteiligten Sprachen zu beleuchten. Dabei spielen ererbte wie auch typologische Ähnlichkeiten eine Rolle.

Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects of pre-existing structural congruency between the affected languages at the time of their initial contact, using the Romance and Slavic languages as examples. In contact of this kind, both genetic and typological similarities play a part.

Contents:

part 1. Contact-induced change between closely related languages

part 2. Contact-induced changes in scenarios with looser family ties

part 3. Typological congruence and perceived similarity

part 4. "Doing being family": language families and language ideologies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110338348

3110338343

9783110338454

3110338459

OCLC:

870591588