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Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change / ed. by Claudine Chamoreau, Isabelle Léglise.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] ; 2Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (393 p.) : 1 MapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110271331
  • 9783110271430
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417/.7
LOC classification:
  • P40.5.L38
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- List of contributors -- Table of contents -- A multi-model approach to contact-induced language change -- An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change -- Contact-induced change as an innovation -- Language contact in language obsolescence -- The emergence of a marked-nominative system in Tehuelche or Aonek’o ʔaʔjen: a contact-induced change? -- On polysemy copying and grammaticalization in language contact -- The attraction of indefinite articles: on the borrowing of Spanish un in Chamorro -- On form and function in language contact: a case study from the Amazonian Vaupés region -- The Basque articles -a and bat and recent contact theories -- Contact phenomena/code copying in Indian Ocean Creoles: the post-abolition period -- Grammaticalization of modal auxiliary verbs in Pima Bajo: an internal or a contact-induced change? -- Contact, convergence, and conjunctions: a cross-linguistic study of borrowing correlations among certain kinds of discourse, phasal adverbial, and dependent clause markers -- On a Latin-Greek diachronic convergence: the perfects with Latin habeo/Greek échō and a participle -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index
Summary: Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-induced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A variety of explanations are identified and their relationships are analyzed. Only a multifaceted methodology enables this fine-grained approach to contact-induced change. A range of methodologies are proposed, but the chapters generally have their roots in a typological perspective. The contributors recognize the precautionary principle: for example, they emphasize the difficulty of studying languages that have not been described adequately and for which diachronic data are not extensive or reliable. Three main perspectives on contact-induced language change are presented. The first explores the role of multilingual speakers in contact-induced language change, especially their spontaneous innovations in discourse. The second explores the differences between ordinary contact-induced change and change in endangered languages. The third discusses various aspects of the relationship between contact-induced change and internal change.
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Frontmatter -- List of contributors -- Table of contents -- A multi-model approach to contact-induced language change -- An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change -- Contact-induced change as an innovation -- Language contact in language obsolescence -- The emergence of a marked-nominative system in Tehuelche or Aonek’o ʔaʔjen: a contact-induced change? -- On polysemy copying and grammaticalization in language contact -- The attraction of indefinite articles: on the borrowing of Spanish un in Chamorro -- On form and function in language contact: a case study from the Amazonian Vaupés region -- The Basque articles -a and bat and recent contact theories -- Contact phenomena/code copying in Indian Ocean Creoles: the post-abolition period -- Grammaticalization of modal auxiliary verbs in Pima Bajo: an internal or a contact-induced change? -- Contact, convergence, and conjunctions: a cross-linguistic study of borrowing correlations among certain kinds of discourse, phasal adverbial, and dependent clause markers -- On a Latin-Greek diachronic convergence: the perfects with Latin habeo/Greek échō and a participle -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index

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Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-induced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A variety of explanations are identified and their relationships are analyzed. Only a multifaceted methodology enables this fine-grained approach to contact-induced change. A range of methodologies are proposed, but the chapters generally have their roots in a typological perspective. The contributors recognize the precautionary principle: for example, they emphasize the difficulty of studying languages that have not been described adequately and for which diachronic data are not extensive or reliable. Three main perspectives on contact-induced language change are presented. The first explores the role of multilingual speakers in contact-induced language change, especially their spontaneous innovations in discourse. The second explores the differences between ordinary contact-induced change and change in endangered languages. The third discusses various aspects of the relationship between contact-induced change and internal change.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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