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Language contact and contact languages / edited by Peter Siemund, Noemi Kintana.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Hamburg studies on multilingualism ; v. 7.
- Hamburg studies on multilingualism, 1571-4934 ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Languages in contact.
- Linguistic change.
- Physical Description:
- x, 358 p. : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives – notably those of language typology, diachronic linguistics, language acquisition and translation studies; and to describe, explain, and elaborate on universal constraints on language contact. The individual chapters offer systematic comparisons of a wealth of contact situations and the book as a whole makes a valuable contribution to deepening our understanding of contact-induced language change. With its broad approach, this work will be welcomed by scholars of many different persuasions.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- List of contributors
- Part I. Introduction
- Introduction. Language contact: Constraints and common paths of contact induced language change
- Part II. Typology
- Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages
- Contact-induced word order change without word order change
- Remodeling grammar: Copying, conventionalization, grammaticalization
- Contact-induced change: The case of the Tamangic languages
- Total reduplication vs. echo-word formation in language contact situations
- Part III. Diachrony
- Variability within the French interrogative system: A diachronic perspective
- Verb-late word order in Old Swedish subordinate clauses: Loan, Ausbau phenomenon, or both?
- Contact-induced phonological changes in the Catalan spoken in Barcelona
- Prepositional aspect constructions in Hiberno-English
- Part IV. Acquisition
- Acquisition of Basque in successive bilingualism: Data from oral storytelling
- Interrogative inversion in non-standard varieties of English
- Part V. Translation
- Linguistic variation through language contact in translation
- Empirical studies of translations as a mode of language contact - "explicitness" of lexicogrammatical encoding as a relevant dimension
- Author index
- Language index
- Subject index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612104428
- 9781282104426
- 128210442X
- 9789027290786
- 9027290784
- OCLC:
- 309822931
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