Processes Of Language Contact

Author : Eline Zenner,Ad Backus,Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110616842

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Cognitive Contact Linguistics by Eline Zenner,Ad Backus,Esme Winter-Froemel Pdf

This volume serves to illustrate the promising insights to be gained when cross-fertilizing Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics, which each hold crucial ingredients to an encompassing study of contact-induced variation and change. Combining the study of the individual mind with the study of shared context, bridging research on experience and perspective with research on variation and change, and tackling the methodological complexities that this empirical approach to mental categorization entails, help us determine how the meaningful units that make up language are categorized and structured in the bi- and multilingual mind and, by extension, in any human mind. Together, the ten papers in this volume reveal the complexities of the interaction between usage, meaning and mind in contact-induced variation and change, which we hope will inspire future research exploring the possibilities of the cross-fertilization we have labeled Cognitive Contact Linguistics.

Author : Peter K. Austin,Julia Sallabank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139500838

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The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages by Peter K. Austin,Julia Sallabank Pdf

It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language endangerment, language shift and language death, but to anyone interested in the languages and cultures of the world. It is accessible both to specialists and non-specialists: researchers will find cutting-edge contributions from acknowledged experts in their fields, while students, activists and other interested readers will find a wealth of readable yet thorough and up-to-date information.

Author : Jeff Siegel
Publisher : Les Editions Fides
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Creole dialects, English
ISBN : 2762120985

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Processes of Language Contact by Jeff Siegel Pdf

Author : Thomas Stolz,Dik Bakker,Rosa Salas Palomo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110206043

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Aspects of Language Contact by Thomas Stolz,Dik Bakker,Rosa Salas Palomo Pdf

This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field. In the first part of the volume, the focus is on methodology and theory. Thomas Stolz defines the study of Romancisation processes as a very promising laboratory for language-contact oriented research and theoretical work based thereon. The reader is informed about the large scale projects on loanword typology in the contribution by Martin Haspelmath and on contact-induced grammatical change conducted by Jeanette Sakel and Yaron Matras. Christel Stolz reviews processes of gender-assignment to loan nouns in German and German-based varieties. The typology of loan verbs is the topic of the contribution by Søren Wichmann and Jan Wohlgemuth. In the articles by Wolfgang Wildgen and Klaus Zimmermann, two radically new approaches to the theory of language contact are put forward: a dynamic model and a constructivism-based theory, respectively. The second part of the volume is dedicated to more empirically oriented studies which look into language-contact constellations with a Romance donor language and a non-European recipient language. Spanish-Amerindian (Guaraní, Otomí, Quichua) contacts are investigated in the comparative study by Dik Bakker, Jorge Gómez-Rendón and Ewald Hekking. Peter Bakker and Robert A. Papen discuss the influence exerted by French on the indigenous languages ofCanada. The extent of the Portuguese impact on the Amazonian language Kulina is studied by Stefan Dienst. John Holm looks at the validity of the hypothesis that bound morphology normally falls victim to Creolization processes and draws his evidence mainly from Portuguese-based Creoles. For Austronesia, borrowings and calques from French still are an understudied phenomenon. Claire Moyse-Faurie’s contribution to this topic is thus a pioneer’s work. Similarly, Françoise Rose and Odile Renault-Lescure provide us with fresh data on language contact in French Guiana. The final article of this collection by Mauro Tosco demonstrates that the Italianization of languages of the former Italian colonies in East Africa is only weak. This volume provides the reader with new insights on all levels of language-contact related studies. The volume addresses especially a readership that has a strong interest in language contact in general and its repercussions on the phonology, grammar and lexicon of the recipient languages. Experts of Romance language contact, and specialists of Amerindian languages, Afro-Asiatic languages, Austronesian languages and Pidgins and Creoles will find the volume highly valuable.

Author : Annick De Houwer,Lourdes Ortega
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1316631222

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The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism by Annick De Houwer,Lourdes Ortega Pdf

The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign language classes, or mature and older adults learning and using more than one language to meet life's needs and desires. This Handbook offers a developmentally oriented and socially contextualized survey of research into individual bilingualism, comprising the learning, use and, as the case may be, unlearning of two or more spoken and signed languages and language varieties. A wide range of topics is covered, from ideologies, policy, the law, and economics, to exposure and input, language education, measurement of bilingual abilities, attrition and forgetting, and giftedness in bilinguals. Also explored are cross- and intra-disciplinary connections with psychology, clinical linguistics, second language acquisition, education, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, contact linguistics, and sign language research.

Author : Jeroen Darquennes,Joseph C. Salmons,Wim Vandenbussche
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110435351

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Language Contact by Jeroen Darquennes,Joseph C. Salmons,Wim Vandenbussche Pdf

Language Contact. An International Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of current topics in research on language contact. Broadly conceived, it stands out for its international approach to language contact, complementing the theoretical state-of-the-art with examples from traditionally eclipsed areas and languages. Next to a thorough introductory overview of the ground-breaking methodological and theoretical approaches that shaped the discipline, ample attention goes to the new and innovative insights on language contact in the 21st century. Combining concise introductory contributions with in-depth treatment of the most relevant case studies in the field, the handbook speaks to both junior and established scholars.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108488099

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English in the German-speaking World by Raymond Hickey Pdf

A collection of studies on the role of English in German-speaking countries, covering a broad range of topics.

Author : Ralph Ludwig,Steve Pagel,Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107041356

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Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact by Ralph Ludwig,Steve Pagel,Peter Mühlhäusler Pdf

This book revisits and updates the concept of linguistic ecology, outlining applications to a variety of contact situations worldwide.

Author : Kurt Braunmüller,Juliane House
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027219282

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Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations by Kurt Braunmüller,Juliane House Pdf

This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities. Its nine contributions cover both theoretical and typological aspects, such as the classification of languages, the role of language contact, linguistic complexity and spontaneous speech innovations, and convergence and divergence processes in translation, (morpho)syntax and phonology/phonetics. Taken together, these studies provide challenges for linguistic theories that generalize from situations of monolingualism suggesting instead that a sound linguistic theory cannot be a theory for just one single, isolated language but must be a theory for at least two languages. It must also account for the fact that some structures involved in contact situations are not kept apart but develop in such a way that the distance decreases between the languages involved.

Author : William Mackey,Jacob Ornstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110810752

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Sociolinguistic Studies in Language Contact by William Mackey,Jacob Ornstein Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Frans van Coetsem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : UOM:39015061532829

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A General and Unified Theory of the Transmission Process in Language Contact by Frans van Coetsem Pdf

Author : Jiří Nekvapil,Tamah Sherman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Intercultural communication
ISBN : 3631582633

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Language Management in Contact Situations by Jiří Nekvapil,Tamah Sherman Pdf

The authors of this volume analyze language contact situations emerging in East and Central Europe, Australia, and Japan. The individual chapters focus on language problems which appear in concrete interactions between speakers of various languages. The objective of the book is to demonstrate the capacity of the language management framework on the basis of highly diversified empirical material and thus aid in the solving of similar language problems which arise in different types of intercultural contact. The chapters contribute to the forming of a new approach to the processes underlying linguistic diversity, covering both its micro and macro aspects.

Author : Yaron Matras
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139480529

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Language Contact by Yaron Matras Pdf

Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism, the acquisition of two or more languages from birth, second language acquisition in adulthood, language change, linguistic typology, language processing and the structure of the language faculty. It explains the effects of multilingualism on society and language policy, as well as the consequences that long-term bilingualism within communities can have for the structure of languages. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, the book provides a clear analysis of such phenomena as language convergence, grammatical borrowing, and mixed languages.

Author : Muriel Norde,Bob de Jonge,Cornelius Hasselblatt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288431

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Language Contact by Muriel Norde,Bob de Jonge,Cornelius Hasselblatt Pdf

The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new contact situations. This volume features ten papers on various aspects of language contact by leading specialists in the field. In these papers, contact-induced change in a wide variety of languages is approached from various perspectives, reflecting the current state of affairs in language contact studies. The first main theme in the volume is related to the linguistic effects of migration, both in the present and in the past, and both in the standard language spoken by ethnic minorities, and in immigrant languages that are influenced by the standard. The second theme concerns border areas, a traditional treasure trove for the study of contact phenomena. The third theme is about contact effects without physical contact, as well as the role played by translators in this process.

Author : Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie,Mathieu Avanzi,Sophie Herment
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783662451687

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Prosody and Language in Contact by Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie,Mathieu Avanzi,Sophie Herment Pdf

This volume provides new insights into various issues on prosody in contact situations, contact referring here to the L2 acquisition process as well as to situations where two language systems may co-exist. A wide array of phenomena are dealt with (prosodic description of linguistic systems in contact situations, analysis of prosodic changes, language development processes, etc.), and the results obtained may give an indication of what is more or less stable in phonological and prosodic systems. In addition, the selected papers clearly show how languages may have influenced or may have been influenced by other language varieties (in multilingual situations where different languages are in constant contact with one another, but also in the process of L2 acquisition). Unlike previous volumes on related topics, which focus in general either on L2 acquisition or on the description and analyses of different varieties of a given language, this volume considers both topics in parallel, allowing comparison and discussion of the results, which may shed new light on more far-reaching theoretical questions such as the role of markedness in prosody and the causes of prosodic changes.