Towards a Holistic Understanding of Language Contact in the Past.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavidas, Nikolaos.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series ; v.383

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact.

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2025.

Summary:

The tendency to view grammar in isolation from multilingual settings is so pervasive that even modern approaches do not often overcome the monolingual paradigm.At the same time, the effects of language contact very clearly manifest themselves, as discussed in the literature on language contact, contact-induced and "shared" grammaticalization.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

1 Introduction

References

Part I: Historical language contact: focus on diachrony and typology

2 Towards a reductionist view of language contact effects

2 The Balkans and contact-induced change

3 The Balkans and the universals question

4 Returning to the universals question and a conclusion

3 Towards an integrated account of the history of Northern Samoyedic

2 General info about Northern Samoyedic

3 The available evidence and the methods

4 The written sources

5 The multilingualism

6 The isoglosses

6.1 Development of ✶w- at the beginning of the word

6.2 Development of the intervocalic ✶-m-

6.3 Nasal prothesis

6.4 Past and past interrogative

6.5 Emphatic forms of personal pronouns

6.6 Demonstrative and interrogative pronouns

6.7 Numerals of the second ten

6.8 Lexicon

7 Integrating different perspectives

8 Conclusion

4 Language contact in South Asia - typology meets diachrony

2 New and early NIA languages - brief overview

3 Ergativity

4 Gender and agreement

5 Classifiers

6 Summary and conclusion

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

5 Albanian of Western Thrace: contact, areal convergence, and ideology in the past and the present

1 Introduction: setting the geographical, historical, and linguistic stage

2 Between old and recent contact

2.1 The multilingual setting

2.2 The lexical effects of contact and convergence

2.3 The structural effects of contact and convergence

3 The role of linguistic ideology and attitudes now and then

4 Conclusions

Part II: Historical language contact: focus on bilingualism.

6 Language contact effects, (bi)directionality and feature interpretability: morphosyntactic data across domains in Greek/Vlach Aromanian bilinguals

2 Vlach Aromanian: the DP and VP domain

3 Research hypotheses

4 The study

4.1 Participants

4.2 Spontaneous Language Production Datasets

4.3 Results: the DP domain

4.3.1 Definiteness in the VA dataset

4.3.2 Adjectives in the VA dataset

4.3.3 Gender in Greek dataset

4.4 Results: the VP domain

4.4.1 Clitics in VA dataset

4.4.2 Verbal inflectional morphology in VA dataset

5 Discussion

7 A situationally based model of language and (trans)languaging in multilingual ecologies

1 Introduction: multilingualism beyond language and contact

2 Named Languages: perspectival and scalar categorisations of semiotic forms

3 Speech and language communities: homogenised representations of heterogeneous and dynamic situations

4 Language and (trans)languaging in a model of multilingual communication

5 Relevance of the model for future research

8 Contact as alignment: community norms in bilingual Ontario, Canada

2 Quantitative methodology

3 Discourse pragmatic there/here

3.1 Background

3.2 Method

3.3 Results

3.4 Summary - discourse-pragmatic there

4 Subject dislocation

4.1 Background

4.2 The community setting

4.3 Method

4.4 Results

4.5 Summary - subject dislocation

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-098957-3

OCLC:

1569121073