Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond / edited by Miriam Bouzouita, Renata Enghels, and Clara Vanderschueren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouzouita, Miriam, editor.

Enghels, Renata, editor.

Vanderschueren, Clara, editor.

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie ; Band 457.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie ; Band 457

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic geography.

Iberian language.

Languages in contact.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 312 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book aims to provide a better understanding of convergence and non-convergence phenomena, such as divergence, from different theoretical perspectives. It brings together nine case studies that deal with contact between languages found in the Iberian Peninsula (Castilian, Catalan, Portuguese and Basque), between Spanish or Portuguese and another language (such as English), and between different varieties from Europe and other continents. The volume thus unites views from two fields that rarely interact: contact linguistics and dialectology. It discusses the mechanisms and consequences of language contact within the Ibero-Romance world, a geographical space characterised by a high rate of multilingual speakers and settings. The contributions deal with various combinations of convergence and divergence, for example between different varieties of the same language, language stability despite contact, as well as less studied aspects, such as the relation between language contact and second language acquisition, the linguistic landscape perspective of language contact, and divergence in linguistic identity construction.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond

Part 1: Convergence and divergence in contact situations in the Iberian Peninsula

Gender loss in accusative clitics in Basque Spanish

Exploring historical linguistic convergence between Basque and Spanish

Structural convergence of two Ibero-Romance varieties

Language contact on the Spanish- Portuguese border

Portuguese as a contact language in Galicia

Part 2: Convergence and divergence across Ibero-Romance varieties outside Europe

Linguistic perceptions on Spanglish discourse settings

Building locations from directional prepositions

Discourse structure, constructions and regional variation

Impersonal se constructions in the Portuguese of East Timor

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-073625-X