ISBN:
9789027290786
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (369 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Hamburg studies on multilingualism v. 7
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Language Contact and Contact Languages
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Languages in contact
;
Linguistic change
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives - notably those of language typology, diachronic linguistics, language acquisition and translation studies; and to describe, explain, and elaborate on universal constraints on language contact. The individual chapters offer systematic comparisons of a wealth of contact situations and the book as a whole makes a valuable contribution to deepening
Description / Table of Contents:
Language Contact and Contact Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Acknowledgement; Table of contents; List of contributors; Part I. Introduction; Language contact: Constraints and common paths of contact induced language change; Part II. Typology; Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages; Contact-induced word order change without word order change; Remodeling grammar: Copying, conventionalization, grammaticalization; Contact-induced change: The case of the Tamangic languages
Description / Table of Contents:
Total reduplication vs. echo-word formation in language contact situationsPart III. Diachrony; Variability within the French interrogative system: A diachronic perspective; Verb-late word order in Old Swedish subordinate clauses: Loan, Ausbau phenomenon, or both?; Contact-induced phonological changes in the Catalan spoken in Barcelona; Prepositional aspect constructions in Hiberno-English; Part IV. Acquisition; Acquisition of Basque in successive bilingualism: Data from oral storytelling; Interrogative inversion in non-standard varieties of English; Part V. Translation
Description / Table of Contents:
Linguistic variation through language contact in translationEmpirical studies of translations as a mode of language contact: "Explicitness" of lexicogrammatica; Author index; Language index; Subject index; The series Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism;
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