Constraints on language variation and change in complex multilingual contact settings Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kotze

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Rooy, Albertus Jacobus, 1972- Editor.

Kotze, Haidee., Editor.

Series:

Contact Language Library

Contact Language Library vol. 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constraints (Linguistics).

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Linguistic change.

Languages in contact.

Multilingualism.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2024

Summary:

"Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings explores an innovative proposal: that linguistic similarities identified in different forms of contact-influenced varieties of language use (including translation, native and non-native varieties of English, and language use of bilinguals more generally) can be accounted for in a coherent framework grounded in the notion of 'constrained communication'. These varieties have hitherto been studied in independent scholarly traditions, especially translation studies and world Englishes, leaving the potential underlying unity underexplored, both conceptually and empirically. The chapters collected in this volume aim to develop such a unified perspective by drawing on corpus data across a range of languages and language varieties, with a focus on written language, a neglected data source in research on multilingual contact settings. The findings point to shared general characteristics across individual contact settings, which result from (probabilistically conditioned) manifestations of the same deeper regularities - constraints - present in diverse language-contact settings"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical grounding of the constrained communication framework

3. The constraints and varieties analysed in this book

4. Methods for studying constrained communication

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 2 Afrikaans influence on genitive variation in South African English?

2. Diachronic comparative corpus analyses

2.1 Corpora/datasets

2.2 Comparing genitive variation in WSAfE and BrE

2.3 Comparing genitive variation in WSAfE and Afrikaans over time

2.4 Zooming in on inanimate possessors

3. Discussion

3.1 Convergence of WSAfE and BrE?

3.2 Levelling of colonial lag?

3.3 Additional constraints on genitive choice?

3.4 Americanisation of WSAfE?

4. Conclusion

Chapter 3 Language contact and change through translation in Afrikaans and South African English

2. Factors conditioning (change in) genitive use in Afrikaans and South African English

3. Methodology

3.1 Corpus design

3.2 Time frames, registers and word counts Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9789027246967

OCLC:

1439601516