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The Routledge handbook of language contact / edited by Evangelia Adamou and Yaron Matras.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge handbooks in linguistics
- Routledge handbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Languages in contact.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 560 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Evangelia Adamou is Senior Researcher at the CNRS (France). She specializes in the analysis of endangered languages with a focus on language contact and bilingualism, combining corpus and experimental methods. Recent publications include: A Corpus-Driven Approach to Language Contact (2016, De Gruyter Mouton) and The Adaptive Bilingual Mind (under contract, Cambridge University Press). Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester. His research interests include contact linguistics, urban multilingualism, typology, and language documentation. He has worked on dialects of Romani, German, Kurdish, and other languages, and is the founder of the Multilingual Manchester research unit.
- Summary:
- "This handbook provides an overview of the state-of-the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of investigation in its own right and featuring 31 chapters, this handbook: brings together a broad range of approaches to contact linguistics that include historical-typological, sociolinguistic and discourse-based approaches. is divided into four sections that deal with: methodological and theoretical approaches; the factors that condition and shape language contact; the impact of language contact on individuals, and language change, repertoires and formation; and outlines the geographical spread of structural features through language contact combines theory with empirical approaches in each chapter The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact includes original contributions from an international range of renowned scholars as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research and is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: The Routledge handbook of language contact
- ISBN:
- 9781351109154
- 1351109154
- 9781351109147
- 1351109146
- 9781351109130
- 1351109138
- OCLC:
- 1137737390
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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