New perspectives on mixed languages : from core to fringe / edited by Maria Mazzoli, Eeva Sippola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sippola, Eeva, editor.

Mazzoli, Maria, editor.

Series:

Language contact and bilingualism ; Volume 18.

Language contact and bilingualism ; Volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages, Mixed.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : de Gruyter Mouton, [2021]

Summary:

A growing number of language varieties with diverse backgrounds and structural typologies have been identified as mixed. However, the debate on the status of many varieties and even on the existence of the category of “mixed languages” continues still today.This volume examines the current state of the theoretical and empirical debate on mixed languages and presents new advances from a diverse set of mixed language varieties. These cover well-known mixed languages, such as Media Lengua, Michif, Gurindji Kriol, and Kallawaya, and varieties whose classification is still debated, such as Reo Rapa, Kumzari, Jopará, and Wutun. The contributions deal with different aspects of mixed languages, including descriptive approaches to their current status and origins, theoretical discussions on the language contact processes in them, and analysis of different types of language mixing practices.This book contributes to the current debate on the existence of the mixed language category, shedding more light onto this fascinating group of languages and the contact processes that shape them.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Mixed languages: From core to fringe

Noun-Verb mixed languages: Similarities and differences

Advances in mixed language phonology: An overview of three case studies

How sentence processing sheds light on mixed language creation

Michif mixed verbs: Typologically unusual word-internal mixing

VO vs. OV: What conditions word order variation in Media Lengua?

Linguistic manipulations in Kallawaya

Social identity and the formation and development of Barranquenho

Ilokano-Spanish: Borrowing, code-switching or a mixed language?

Jopara as a case of a variable mixed language

Pronominal usage in Cité Duits, a Dutch-German-Limburgish contact variety

Wutun as a mixed language

Repertoire management and the performative origin of Mixed Languages

Subject Index

Language Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501511141

1501511149

9781501511257

1501511254

OCLC:

1252428500