Dynamics of contact-induced language change / edited by Claudine Chamoreau, Isabelle Léglise.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chamoreau, Claudine.

Léglise, Isabelle.

Series:

Language contact and bilingualism ; 2.

Language contact and bilingualism ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphosyntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Multilingualism.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-induced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A variety of explanations are identified and their relationships are analyzed. Only a multifaceted methodology enables this fine-grained approach to contact-induced change. A range of methodologies are proposed, but the chapters generally have their roots in a typological perspective. The contributors recognize the precautionary principle: for example, they emphasize the difficulty of studying languages that have not been described adequately and for which diachronic data are not extensive or reliable. Three main perspectives on contact-induced language change are presented. The first explores the role of multilingual speakers in contact-induced language change, especially their spontaneous innovations in discourse. The second explores the differences between ordinary contact-induced change and change in endangered languages. The third discusses various aspects of the relationship between contact-induced change and internal change.

Contents:

Frontmatter

List of contributors

Table of contents

A multi-model approach to contact-induced language change / Chamoreau, Claudine / Léglise, Isabelle

An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change / Matras, Yaron

Contact-induced change as an innovation / Chamoreau, Claudine

Language contact in language obsolescence / Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.

The emergence of a marked-nominative system in Tehuelche or Aonek'o ʔaʔjen: a contact-induced change? / Garay, Ana Fernández

On polysemy copying and grammaticalization in language contact / Heine, Bernd

The attraction of indefinite articles: on the borrowing of Spanish un in Chamorro / Stolz, Thomas

On form and function in language contact: a case study from the Amazonian Vaupés region / Epps, Patience

The Basque articles -a and bat and recent contact theories / Manterola, Julen

Contact phenomena/code copying in Indian Ocean Creoles: the post-abolition period / Kriegel, Sibylle

Grammaticalization of modal auxiliary verbs in Pima Bajo: an internal or a contact-induced change? / Estrada-Fernández, Zarina

Contact, convergence, and conjunctions: a cross-linguistic study of borrowing correlations among certain kinds of discourse, phasal adverbial, and dependent clause markers / Grant, Anthony P.

On a Latin-Greek diachronic convergence: the perfects with Latin habeo/Greek échō and a participle / Bruno, Carla

Author index

Language index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613600585

9781280570988

1280570989

OCLC:

794684973