ISBN:
1-009-11577-4
,
1-009-11597-9
,
1-009-10598-1
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxi, 760 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics
Series Statement:
Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics.
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Languages in contact.
;
Sociolinguistics.
Abstract:
Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - has been pervasive in human history. However, where histories of language contact are comparable, experiences of migrant populations have been only similar, not identical. Given this, how does language contact work? With contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the first in a two-volume set - delves into this question from multiple perspectives and provides state-of-the-art research on population movement and language contact and change. It begins with an overview of how language contact as a research area has evolved since the late 19th century. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with population movement and language contact worldwide. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the dynamics of social interactions in diverse contact settings and how the changing ecologies influence the linguistic outcomes.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Language contact: what a rich and intellectually stimulating history since the late 19th century! / Salikoko S. Mufwene & Anna María Escobar -- Part One Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics -- 2. Language contact and historical linguistics / Brian D. Joseph -- 3. The Chinese expansion and language coexistence in modern China / Randy J. LaPolla -- 4. Tracing language contact in Africa's past / Bonny Sands -- 5. Populations in contact: linguistic, archaeological, and genomic evidence for Indo-European diffusion / Bridget Drinka -- 6. The impact of autochthonous languages on Bantu language variation: a comparative view on southern and central Africa / Koen Bostoen & Hilde Gunnink -- Part Two Linguistic Areas -- 7. The Balkans / Victor A. Friedman -- 8. The Amazon basin: linguistic areas and language contact / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- 9. Migration and trade as drivers of language spread and contact in indigenous Latin America / Thiago Costa Chacon -- 10. Language contact in South Asia / Hans Henrich Hock -- Part Three Language Spread -- 11. The geographic and demographic expansion of Malay / James T. Collins -- 12. Geographic and demographic spread of Swahili / Alamin Mazrui -- 13. Arabic language contact / Jonathan Owens -- Part Four Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages -- 14. The emergence and evolution of romance languages in Europe and the Americas / John M. Lipski -- 15. The expansion and evolution of Portuguese / J. Clancy Clements -- 16. French and English in contact in North America / Robert A. Papen -- 17. French in African contact settings / Cécile B. Vigouroux -- 18. The geographical and demographic expansion of English / Edgar W. Schneider & Sarah Buschfeld -- Part Five Language Diasporas -- 19. Diasporas: an overview / Dirk Hoerder & Henry Yu -- 20. Labor migrations: language change in communities and diasporas / Dirk Hoerder & Henry Yu -- 21. The Korean diaspora / Joseph Sung-Yul Park -- 22. The Chinese diaspora: language maintenance and loss / Sherman Lee -- 23. The diachrony of Yiddish and Judaeo-Spanish as contact languages / Marie-Christine Bornes Varol & Anne Szulmajster-Celnikier -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jun 2022).
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316796146
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