Language contact / Yaron Matras, University of Manchester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matras, Yaron, 1963- author.

Series:

Cambridge textbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

xix, 410 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Manifestations of language contact are found in a great variety of domains, including language acquisition, language processing and production, conversation and discourse, social functions of language and language policy, typology and language change, and more. This makes it a special challenge to compile an overview of the subject. Most introductory works devoted to contact linguistics have hitherto chosen to specialise either in the individual-synchronic aspects of bilingualism, or in structural-diachronic aspects of contact-induced language change. This book introduces an integrated theory of language contact, within which the study of these various domains can be bound together"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

1.1. The Study of Language Contact

1.2. Towards an Integrated, Functional Approach to Language Contact

1.3. The Structure of This Book

2. An Emerging Multilingual Repertoire

2.1. A Case Study

2.2. Lexical Development

2.3. Controlling the Selection Mechanism

2.4. Combining Repertoire Components

2.5. Conscious Exploitation of the Full Linguistic Repertoire

2.6. Implications for the Study of Language Contact

3. Societal Multilingualism

3.1. Linguistic Repertoires and Social Activities: A Micro-Level Approach

3.2. Language-Domain Mapping at the Macro-Level

3.2.1. Role Attributes of Languages in Multilingual Societies

3.2.2. Types of Domain Specialisation

3.2.3. Domain Stability and Language Maintenance

3.3. Language Management in Multilingual Settings

3.4. Repertoire, Activity Domains, and Language Change

3.5. New Directions in the Study of Societal Multilingualism

4. Acquiring and Maintaining a Bilingual Repertoire

4.1. Bilingual First-Language Acquisition

4.1.1. Definitions and Methodological Problems

4.1.2. The Separation of Languages

4.1.3. Linguistic Socialisation and Pragmatic Competence

4.1.4. Language Systems vs. Language Repertoires

4.2. Second-Language Acquisition

4.2.1. Facilitating Factors

4.2.2. Transfer and Interference

4.2.3. Interlanguage and Fossilisation

4.2.4. Communicative Creativity in L2 Discourse

4.2.5. Language Learners and Linguistic Repertoires

4.3. Bilingualism and Language Processing

4.3.1. Language Separation in the Brain

4.3.2. Models of Bilingual Language Processing

4.3.3. Bilingual Speech Errors

4.4. Conclusion

5. Crossing the Boundaries: Codeswitching in Conversation

5.1. Defining Codeswitching

5.1.1. Language Mixing in the Bilingual Mode

5.1.2. Single-Word Insertions and Their Integration

5.1.3. The Codeswitching-Borrowing Continuum

5.2. Situational and Conversational Codeswitching

5.2.1. Code Selection: Social Norms and Identity

5.2.2. Discourse Functions of Codeswitching

5.3. Structural Aspects of Codeswitching

5.4. Codeswitching and Utterance Modifiers

5.5. The Codeswitching-Borrowing Continuum as Repertoire Management

6. The Replication of Linguistic `Matter'

6.1. Defining `Borrowings'

6.2. Generalisations on Borrowing

6.2.1. Motivations for Borrowing

6.2.2. Borrowing Hierarchies

7. Lexical Borrowing

7.1. Content Words and Semantic Hierarchies

7.2. The Structural Integration of Nouns

7.3. The Borrowing of Verbs

7.4. Adjectives and Lexical Adverbs

8. Grammatical and Phonological Borrowing

8.1. Grammatical Function Words

8.1.1. Discourse Markers and Connectors

8.1.2. Phasal Adverbs and Focus Particles

8.1.3. Indefinites and Interrogatives

8.1.4. Expressions of Temporal and Local Relations

8.1.5. Numerals

8.1.6. Place Deixis, Demonstratives, and Personal Pronouns

8.1.7. Negators and Existentials

8.2. Morphological Borrowing

8.2.1. Derivational Morphology

8.2.2. Inflectional Morphology

8.2.3. Articles and Classifiers

8.3. Constraints on Matter Replication

8.4. Mechanisms of Contact-Induced Change in Phonology

8.4.1. General Considerations

8.4.2. The Phonological Integration of Word-Forms

8.4.3. Convergence of Phonological Systems

8.4.4. Contact-Susceptibility within Phonology

9. Converging Structures: Pattern Replication

9.1. Defining Pattern Replication

9.1.1. Distinguishing Matter and Pattern Replication

9.1.2. Convergence and Grammaticalisation

9.1.3. Pattern Replication and Creative Pivot-Matching

9.2. The Distribution of Pattern Replication

9.2.1. Lexical Semantics

9.2.2. Clause-Level Typology

9.2.3. Phrase-Level Typology

9.2.4. Morphology and Morphological Paradigms

9.3. Linguistic Areas

9.3.1. Methodological Issues

9.3.2. Profiles of Linguistic Areas

9.3.3. An Outlook on Language Convergence

10. Contact Languages

10.1. The Birth of a Language

10.2. Pidgins and Creoles

10.2.1. Definitions and Key Features

10.2.2. Emergence Scenarios

10.3. Mixed Languages

10.3.1. Definitions and Explanatory Accounts

10.3.2. Structural Profiles and the Functionality Cline

10.4. The Position of Contact Languages

11. Towards a Functional Theory of Language Contact

11.1. Theorising Language Contact

11.2. A Pragmatic-Functional Perspective

11.2.1. The Functionality of Categories

11.2.2. Repertoire, Not Languages

11.2.3. Contact as Adjustment of Communicative Routines

11.2.4. Communicative Motivations and Repertoire Re-alignment

11.2.5. Structural Outcomes Are Functionality Driven

11.3. The Multilingual Speaker's Repertoire

11.4. Multilingual Speakers as Agents of Language Change

11.5. Contact and the Layered Architecture of the Language Faculty

11.6. Language Contact and the Evolution of Human Language Capacity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Matras, Yaron, 1963- Language contact.

ISBN:

9781108425117

1108425119

9781108440080

1108440088

OCLC:

1143846105

Publisher Number:

99989813948