Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings Edited by Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kotze

Format:

Book

Contributor:

van Rooy, Bertus, editor.

Kotze, Haidee, editor.

Series:

Contact Language Library 2542-7059 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contact Linguistics.

Historical linguistics.

Multilingualism.

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology.

Theoretical linguistics.

Local Subjects:

Contact Linguistics.

Historical linguistics.

Multilingualism.

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology.

Theoretical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 293 pages )

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:

Chapter 1. Introduction / Haidee Kotze and Bertus van Rooy

Chapter 2. Afrikaans influence on genitive variation in South African English? / Anette Rosenbach and Johanita Kirsten

Chapter 3. Language contact and change through translation in Afrikaans and South African English / Karien Redelinghuys

Chapter 4. Investigating the complementiser that in the verb complementation of Black South African English / Maristi Partridge

Chapter 5. Lexical use in spoken New Englishes and Learner Englishes / Gaëtanelle Gilquin

Chapter 6. The effect of directionality on lexico‑syntactic simplification in French><English student translation / Laura A. de S. Penha-Marion, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Marie-Aude Lefer

Chapter 7. The complex case of constrained communication / Ilmari Ivaska, Silvia Bernardini and Adriano Ferraresi

Chapter 8. Comparing contact effects in translation and second language writing / Stella Neumann, Elma Kerz and Arndt Heilmann

Chapter 9. Conclusion / Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kotze

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Hardbound version:

ISBN:

9789027246967

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.