series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]

Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Mouton

Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]

Herausgegeben von: Yaron Matras

ISSN: 2190-698X

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This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, adopting an integrated approach to diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include psycholinguistic and acquisition-oriented aspects of child and adult multilingualism such as bilingual language processing, second language acquisition, and bilingual first language acquisition; social, formal-structural, and conversational aspects of code switching; diachronic and typological aspects of contact-induced language change such as lexical and structural borrowing, contact languages, pidgins and creoles, convergence, and linguistic areas; as well as societal aspects of multilingualism, language management in multilingual societies, receptive multilingualism and lingua francas, language maintenance and language shift, multilingualism in computer-mediated communication, and more. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation and welcomes contributions from a variety of approaches.

To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern

Yaron Matras, Manchester, UK.

Fachgebiete

book: Modality in Contact

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

Modality in Contact

Necessity and Obligation in New Englishes

Carmelo Alessandro Basile

Band 36 in dieser Reihe

This book explores the evolution of modal constructions of necessity and obligation in New Englishes. Focusing on Singapore English, analysis of corpus data reveals lower levels of grammaticalization compared to its lexifier, British English. This trend is explained through the lenses of a “pan-stratist” model, which considers a spectrum of forces influencing the dynamics of contact. On the one hand, cognitive mechanisms seem to favour the selection of less grammaticalized (and more transparent) variants from the lexifier. On the other hand, the substrate is positioned as a background force, actively contributing to the selection of new material to address functional gaps in the system.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111487144
ISBN:: 9783111487144
ISBN:: 9783111488752
ISBN:: 9783111489520
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Language Contact in Sanandaj

Buch Open Access 2024

Language Contact in Sanandaj

A Study of the Impact of Iranian on Neo-Aramaic

Geoffrey Khan, Masoud Mohammadirad

Band 32 in dieser Reihe

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This book is a detailed study of contact-induced change in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Sanandaj, a town in western Iran. Since its foundation in early 17^th century, the city has been home to a significant Jewish community. The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of the town displays different historical layers of contact with various Iranian languages over the course of many centuries. The Iranian languages in question are Gorani, Kurdish, and Persian. Among these, Gorani has had a particularly deep impact on Jewish Neo-Aramaic, whereas the impact of Kurdish, and especially Persian, remains superficial. Jewish Neo-Aramaic records a history of language shift from Gorani to Kurdish in the region. The book offers insights into contact-induced change in social contexts in which a language is maintained as a demarcation of communal identity in a multilingual setting.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111209180
ISBN:: 9783111209180
ISBN:: 9783111205786
ISBN:: 9783111210070
Fachgebiet:: Asien- und Pazifikwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Westasien
Fachgebiet:: Iran
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Sprachdokumentation
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Speakers and Structures in Language Contact

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

Speakers and Structures in Language Contact

Pluralistic Approaches to Change and Variation

Barbara Hans-Bianchi, Chiara Truppi, Barbara Vogt

Band 31 in dieser Reihe

This book is a collection of innovative studies on language contact. It contains novel works on unexplored issues related to language contact in different settings and aims to contribute multi-perspective insights to the current state of the art on language contact. Novel approaches to contact-related change, variation, attrition, and emergence of new varieties are explored from the lens of sociolinguistic, typological, synchronic, and diachronic perspectives. The contact settings vary from official and majority languages to minority, endangered and/or non-official varieties in different parts of the world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111188348
ISBN:: 9783111188348
ISBN:: 9783111187143
ISBN:: 9783111189048
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Mutual Intelligibility between Closely Related Languages

Buch Open Access 2025

Mutual Intelligibility between Closely Related Languages

Charlotte Gooskens, University of Groningen

Band 30 in dieser Reihe

This book provides a detailed overview of research on mutual intelligibility between closely related languages. The book is organized around three sections which explore different facets of mutual intelligibility research. The first section outlines how to measure levels of intelligibility and its linguistic and extra-linguistic determinants. The second part grapples with questions and issues which arise once the measuring tools are established. A final section reflects on the practical and theoretical value of studying mutual intelligibility, including issues related to language planning and policy, such as cultural, communicative, educational, and economical matters.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111134697
ISBN:: 9783111134697
ISBN:: 9783111131658
ISBN:: 9783111135489
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Influence of the Lexifier

Buch 2024

The Influence of the Lexifier

Beyond Grammaticalization in Singapore English

Debra Ziegeler

Band 29 in dieser Reihe

The study of language contact in the „new" English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches and reference to substrate languages but much less often to functionally-based contact linguistic theory. In The Influence of the Lexifier, Ziegeler applies grammaticalization and other explanations of language change to many under-researched features of Singapore English, highlighting the role of the co-existing lexifier in the unique contact setting of Singapore.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110785258
ISBN:: 9783110785258
ISBN:: 9783110785326
ISBN:: 9783110785173
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Asiatische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Asiatische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Language Contact and the Development of Krio

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2025

Language Contact and the Development of Krio

The Evolution of Linguistic Properties – Past and Present

Malcolm Awadajin Finney

Band 28 in dieser Reihe

Many linguists and creolists acknowledge the critical role of Krio in furthering our understanding of the emergence, development, and evolution of Atlantic-based English-lexified creoles. This book examines the development and restructuring of Krio linguistic properties from diachronic and synchronic perspectives. It explores models of pidginization and creolization with special focus on the historical, linguistic, social, and demographic contexts under which Krio emerged, expanded, and evolved. It appraises effects of language contact (historical and current) on phonological, lexical, lexico-semantic, and morphosyntactic properties of Krio and processes involved (borrowing, grammaticalization, calquing, transfer, etc.) in development and evolution of such properties. It also assesses the effects of expanded usage of Krio in public domains (entertainment, media, politics, education, etc.) on current usage of the language. Text could also be a resource for academic teaching and language advocacy in pidgin and creole speaking communities. The text will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners interested in pidgin and creole linguistics, particularly those engaged in comparative work of pidgin and creole languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110784541
ISBN:: 9783110784541
ISBN:: 9783110784565
ISBN:: 9783110784527
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Afrikanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Afrikanische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Pidgin und kreolische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Interfaces
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners

Buch 2023

A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners

Early Multi-Competence in South Tyrol

Barbara Hofer

Band 27 in dieser Reihe

This book presents a new extended framework for the study of early multicompetence. It proposes a concept of multilingual competences as a valuable educational target, and a view of the multilingual learner as a competent language user. The thematic focus is on multilingual skill development in primary schoolers in the trilingual province of South Tyrol, northern Italy. A wide range of topics pertaining to multicompetence building and the special affordances of multilingual pedagogy are explored. Key concepts like language proficiency, native-speakerism, or monolingual classroom bias are subjected to critical analysis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111106601
ISBN:: 9783111106601
ISBN:: 9783111104652
ISBN:: 9783111107714
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Repertoire in Contact

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2025

Repertoire in Contact

Variation and Multilingual Language Use Among Alyawarr Children

Sally Dixon

Band 26 in dieser Reihe

The use of multiple, closely-related languages in childhood is somewhat of a final frontier for several strands of research: child language, second language acquisition, and creole studies. However, the methodologies common in these fields do not easily import to contexts that are typical of remote communities in Australia. In one such community, young Alyawarr children go about their daily lives mainly speaking Alyawarr English, a new contact language. At school they use Standard Australian English as a second language. Much of what they encounter in SAE seems familiar and much is obviously different. In between, there are subtle differences that are possibly harder to detect, parse and maintain. This study takes a corpus of 50+ hours of naturalistic video recordings of six focus children, and creates two maximally contrastive, contextually defined data sets. Shared, variable features are analysed using the Comparative Variationist method. This study breaks new ground in both methodological terms, with the application of variationist modelling to child bi-varietal language repertoires, and in advancing our understanding of the vectors of repertoire management in the complex ecologies of the region.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110765700
ISBN:: 9783110765700
ISBN:: 9783110765748
ISBN:: 9783110765601
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Australische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Australische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Pidgin und kreolische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language

Buch 2023

Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language

Francesco Bryan Romano

Band 25 in dieser Reihe

The book is dedicated to the linguistic, psycholinguistic, and ethnolinguistic dimensions of Italian as a heritage language spoken by minorities in the Americas and Europe. The contributions deepen our understanding of heritage language bilingualism in general, especially by comparing the acquisition of inflectional morphology in Italian with the processes at play in other heritage languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110759587
ISBN:: 9783110759587
ISBN:: 9783110759518
ISBN:: 9783110759624
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Zweitspracherwerb
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Italienisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Language Families in Contact

Buch 2022

Language Families in Contact

The Mutual Impact of Slavic and Romani

Anna-Maria Sonnemann

Band 24 in dieser Reihe

The book provides an encyclopaedic overview of the language contact between Slavic languages and Romani in Eastern, South-Eastern and East-Central Europe. It is based on Yaron Matras’ pragmatic-functional approach to language contact and follows a new direction in Romani linguistics that conceives Romani as a subgroup of closely related languages rather than a single language. The central topics discussed in the book are: Slavic impact on Romani phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax; forms and functions of Slavic verbal prefixes in Romani; Slavic impact on the Romani lexicon; Romani elements in the nonstandard lexicon of the Slavic languages; writing Romani with ‘Slavic’ alphabets.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110756173
ISBN:: 9783110756173
ISBN:: 9783110756241
ISBN:: 9783110756043
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Slavische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Influence of English on Italian

Buch Open Access 2023

The Influence of English on Italian

Lexical and Cultural Features

Virginia Pulcini

Band 23 in dieser Reihe

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The volume explores the history of language contact between Italy and Anglophone countries and illustrates the phenomenon of lexical borrowing. Types of English-induced borrowings are presented on the basis of quantitative and qualitative information provided by Italian lexicographic sources and corpus-based evidence. Criteria of currency and frequency are discussed with reference to a multilingual project (GLAD – Global Anglicism Database), offering a contribution to loanword lexicography. The book is addressed to scholars and non-experts interested in the input of English borrowings into Italian.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110755114
ISBN:: 9783110755114
ISBN:: 9783110755220
ISBN:: 9783110754957
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Lexikographie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Italienisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Multilingual Moscow

Buch 2024

Multilingual Moscow

Dynamics of Language and Migration in a Capital City

Mira Bergelson, Dionysios Zoumpalidis

Band 22 in dieser Reihe

Moscow is one of the largest cities in Europe. Over the last three decades, the linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity in the Russian mega-city has increased substantially. On the other hand, language policy and language situation received little or no academic attention. The collection is closing this gap in the literature and investigates the urban multilingual practices in Moscow.

A particular focus is placed on the investigation of multimodal interactions within minority groups. Ideologies about language play an important role in how communities form and differentiate themselves from others. Interestingly, the book unearths significant ideological views held about language varieties spoken in Moscow.

The collection offers interdisciplinary contributions from areas such as education, intercultural communication, migration studies, geography, ethnography of communication, and community practitioners.

In sum, the reader benefits from an insightful introduction to the complex linguistic situation in the dynamic capital of Russia.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110751215
ISBN:: 9783110751215
ISBN:: 9783110751116
ISBN:: 9783110751253
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachenpolitik, Sprachpflege
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Slavische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Between Separation and Symbiosis

Buch 2021

Between Separation and Symbiosis

South Eastern European Languages and Cultures in Contact

Andrey N. Sobolev

Band 20 in dieser Reihe

The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the Balkans (South East Europe) that present a continuum between ethnic and linguistic separation and symbiosis among groups of people. The studies in this volume achieve several aims: they critically assess the Balkan Sprachbund theory; they analyse general contact theories against the background of new, original, representative field and historical Greek, Albanian, Romance, Slavic and Judesmo data; they employ and contribute to recent methods of research on linguistic convergence in bilingual societies; they propose new general assessments of extra- and intralinguistic factors of Balkanization over the centuries; and they outline prospects for future research. The factors relevant to contact scenarios and linguistic change in the Balkans are identified and typologized through models such as those related to a balanced or unbalanced (socio)linguistic situation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501509254
ISBN:: 9781501509254
ISBN:: 9781501520723
ISBN:: 9781501509216
ISBN:: 9781501516641
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit
Fachgebiet:: Dialektologie
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Multilingualism

Buch 2019

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Multilingualism

The Fundamentals

Simona Montanari, Suzanne Quay

Band 19 in dieser Reihe

Multilingualism is a typical aspect of everyday life for most of the world’s population; it has existed since the beginning of humanity and among individuals of all backgrounds. Nonetheless, it has often been treated as a variant of bilingualism or as a phenomenon unique to individual areas of study. The purpose of this book is to review current knowledge about the acquisition, use and loss of multiple languages using a multidisciplinary perspective, highlighting the common themes and stimulating insights that can emerge when multilingualism is viewed from different but related areas of investigation. The chapters focus on research evidence, showing that multilingualism is a complex phenomenon that involves a myriad of linguistic and extra-linguistic forces and that should be studied in its own right as evidence of human potential and capacity for language. The book is primarily addressed to students and scholars interested in deepening their understanding of the different facets of multilingualism, including the individual and societal circumstances that contribute to it, the cognitive and neural mechanisms that make it possible, and the dynamics involved in the acquisition, use and loss of multiple languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501507984
ISBN:: 9781501507984
ISBN:: 9781501525384
ISBN:: 9781501516504
ISBN:: 9781501507908
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: New Perspectives on Mixed Languages

Buch 2021

New Perspectives on Mixed Languages

From Core to Fringe

Maria Mazzoli, Eeva Sippola

Band 18 in dieser Reihe

A growing number of language varieties with diverse backgrounds and structural typologies have been identified as mixed. However, the debate on the status of many varieties and even on the existence of the category of “mixed languages” continues still today.
This volume examines the current state of the theoretical and empirical debate on mixed languages and presents new advances from a diverse set of mixed language varieties. These cover well-known mixed languages, such as Media Lengua, Michif, Gurindji Kriol, and Kallawaya, and varieties whose classification is still debated, such as Reo Rapa, Kumzari, Jopará, and Wutun. The contributions deal with different aspects of mixed languages, including descriptive approaches to their current status and origins, theoretical discussions on the language contact processes in them, and analysis of different types of language mixing practices.
This book contributes to the current debate on the existence of the mixed language category, shedding more light onto this fascinating group of languages and the contact processes that shape them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511257
ISBN:: 9781501511257
ISBN:: 9781501520945
ISBN:: 9781501511141
ISBN:: 9781501517266
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Diaspora Language Contact

Buch 2021

Diaspora Language Contact

The Speech of Croatian Speakers Abroad

Jim Hlavac, Diana Stolac, Sarah Thomason

Band 17 in dieser Reihe

This book is an innovative contribution to contact linguistics as it presents a rarely studied but sizeable diaspora language community in contact with five languages – English, German, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish – across four continents. Foregrounded by diachronic descriptions of heritage Croatian in long-standing minority communities the book presents synchronically based studies of the speech of different generations of diaspora speakers. Croatian offers excellent scope as a base language to examine how lexical and morpho-structural innovations occur in a highly inflective Slavic language where external influence from Germanic and Romance languages appears evident. The possibility of internal factors is also addressed and interpretive models of language change are drawn on.

With a foreword by Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501503917
ISBN:: 9781501503917
ISBN:: 9781501521423
ISBN:: 9781501511813
ISBN:: 9781501503818
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Contact and Ideology in a Multilingual Community

Buch 2017

Contact and Ideology in a Multilingual Community

Yiddish and Hebrew Among the Ultra-Orthodox

Dalit Assouline

Band 16 in dieser Reihe

This book presents the role of ideology in language contact situations and the scope of its influence on linguistic behavior. It will also provide an important addition to the field of Yiddish linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505300
ISBN:: 9781501505300
ISBN:: 9781501514401
ISBN:: 9781501505287
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Asiatische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Semitische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Hebräisch
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Multilingual Practices in Language History

Buch 2018

Multilingual Practices in Language History

English and Beyond

Päivi Pahta, Janne Skaffari, Laura Wright

Band 15 in dieser Reihe

Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices witnessed in them therefore reflect ongoing and earlier language contact situations. However, textbooks and earlier research tend to display a monolingual bias. This collected volume on multilingual practices in historical materials, including code-switching, highlights the importance of a multilingual approach. The authors explore multilingualism in hitherto neglected genres, periods and areas, introduce new methods of locating and analysing multiple languages in various sources, and review terminology, theories and tools. The studies also revisit some of the issues already introduced in previous research, such as Latin interacting with European vernaculars and the complex relationship between code-switching and lexical borrowing. Collectively, the contributors show that multilingual practices share many of the same features regardless of time and place, and that one way or the other, all historical texts are multilingual. This book takes the next step in historical multilingualism studies by establishing the relevance of the multilingual approach to understanding language history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504945
ISBN:: 9781501504945
ISBN:: 9781501513817
ISBN:: 9781501504907
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Boundaries and Bridges

Buch 2017

Boundaries and Bridges

Language Contact in Multilingual Ecologies

Kofi Yakpo, Pieter C. Muysken

Band 14 in dieser Reihe

Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it probably represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change. This book presents fascinating cases of multidirectional contact and convergence between highly diverse languages in an emerging linguistic area in Suriname and the Guianas and proposes a framework for comparable studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514886
ISBN:: 9781614514886
ISBN:: 9781614516842
ISBN:: 9781501501142
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Loss and Renewal

Buch 2016

Loss and Renewal

Australian Languages Since Colonisation

Felicity Meakins, Carmel O'Shannessy

Band 13 in dieser Reihe

Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021
by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages

Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518792
ISBN:: 9781614518792
ISBN:: 9781614518877
ISBN:: 9781501501036
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Corpus-Driven Approach to Language Contact

Buch 2016

A Corpus-Driven Approach to Language Contact

Endangered Languages in a Comparative Perspective

Evangelia Adamou

Band 12 in dieser Reihe

This book proposes a corpus-driven approach to language contact based on the study of endangered languages. Drawing on variationist and language contact frameworks, it presents an analysis of spoken corpora from Europe and Mexico using a combination of criteria. The aim of this approach is to establish patterns of multilingual speech prevailing in different communities and allow for crosslinguistic comparison.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614516576
ISBN:: 9781614516576
ISBN:: 9781614517610
ISBN:: 9781501500657
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Converging Grammars

Buch 2015

Converging Grammars

Constructions in Singapore English

Debra Ziegeler

Band 11 in dieser Reihe

This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another. Case studies are illustrated in which the possibility of a 'merger'-construction is offered to resolve such problems. The book is intended for students of construction theories, variation studies, or any researcher of contact grammars

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514091
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-571-5
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-409-1
ISBN:: 9781501500633
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Substrate and Adstrate

Buch 2015

Substrate and Adstrate

The Origins of Spatial Semantics in West African Pidgincreoles

Micah Corum

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514626
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-620-0
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-462-6
ISBN:: 9781501500916
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Pseudo-English

Buch 2015

Pseudo-English

Studies on False Anglicisms in Europe

Cristiano Furiassi, Henrik Gottlieb

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

This volume focuses on how English, through false Anglicisms, influences several European languages, including Italian, Spanish, French, German, Danish and Norwegian. Studies on false Gallicisms are also included, thus showing how English may be affected by false borrowings.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514688
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-671-2
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-468-8
ISBN:: 9781501500237
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Borrowed Morphology

Buch 2015

Borrowed Morphology

Francesco Gardani, Peter Arkadiev, Nino Amiridze

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

By integrating novel developments in both contact linguistics and morphological theory, this volume pursues the topic of borrowed morphology by recourse to sophisticated theoretical and methodological accounts. The authors address fundamental issues, such as the alleged universal dispreference for morphological borrowing and its effects on morphosyntactic complexity, and corroborate their analyses with strong cross-linguistic evidence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513209
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-556-2
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-320-9
ISBN:: 9781501500374
ISBN:: 9781501515873
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: New Perspectives on Lexical Borrowing

Buch 2014

New Perspectives on Lexical Borrowing

Onomasiological, Methodological and Phraseological Innovations

Eline Zenner, Gitte Kristiansen

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

This volume aims to broaden the focus of existing loanword research, which has mainly been conducted from a systemic and structuralist perspective. The eight studies in this volume introduce onomasiological, phraseological, and methodological innovations to the study of lexical borrowing. These new perspectives significantly enhance our understanding of lexical borrowing and provide new insights into contact-induced variation and change.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514305
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-591-3
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-430-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Contact Languages

Buch 2013

Contact Languages

A Comprehensive Guide

Peter Bakker, Yaron Matras

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language descent and linguistic family tree models; and a sociolinguistic perspective, identifying specific social contexts in which contact languages emerge.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513711
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-476-3
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-371-1
ISBN:: 9781501512674
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Repertoires and Choices in African Languages

Buch 2013

Repertoires and Choices in African Languages

Friederike Lüpke, Anne Storch

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

Most African languages are spoken by communities as one of several languages present on a daily basis. The persistence of multilingualism and the linguistic creativity manifest in the playful use of different languages are striking, especially against the backdrop of language death and expanding monolingualism elsewhere in the world. The effortless mastery of several languages is disturbing, however, for those who take essentialist perspectives that see it as a problem rather than a resource, and for the dominating, conflictual, sociolinguistic model of multilingualism. This volume investigates African minority languages in the context of changing patterns of multilingualism, and also assesses the status of African languages in terms of existing influential vitality scales. An important aspect of multilingual praxis is the speakers' agency in making choices, their repertoires of registers and the multiplicity of language ideology associated with different ways of speaking. The volume represents a new and original contribution to the ethnography of speaking of multilingual practices and the cultural ideas associated with them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511946
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-251-6
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-194-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting

Buch 2012

Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting

The Linguistic and Social Context of English and Pidgin in Cameroon

Eric A. Anchimbe

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

This timely book brings together research on the features and evolution of Cameroon English and Cameroon Pidgin English, approached from a variety of innovative multilingual frameworks that focus on the emergence of mother tongue speakers. The authors illustrate how language and population contact, history (colonialism), multilingualism, translation, and indigenization have contributed to shaping the norms of postcolonial Englishes and Pidgins. Employing naturalistic data, the volume provides a new fascinating perspective that better situates and supplements existing research in the fields of African Englishes and Creolistics. It is particularly of key interest to sociolinguists, contact linguists, Africanists, Anglicists, creolists and historical linguists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511199
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-248-6
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-119-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Origins of a Creole

Buch 2012

Origins of a Creole

The History of Papiamentu and Its African Ties

Bart Jacobs

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. In the literature on the issue, widely diverging hypotheses have been advanced, but scholars have not come close to a consensus. The present study casts new and long-lasting light on the issue, putting forward compelling interdisciplinary evidence that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles of the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance (Senegal). Following the trans-Atlantic transfer of native speakers to Curaçao in the latter half of the 17th century, the Portuguese-based proto-variety underwent a far-reaching process of relexification towards Spanish, affecting the basic vocabulary while leaving intact the original phonology, morphology, and syntax. Papiamentu is thus shown to constitute a case of 'language contact reduplicated' in that a creole underwent a second significant restructuring process (relexification). These explicit claims and their rigorous underpinning will set standards for both the study of Papiamentu and creole studies at large and will be received with great interest in the wider field of contact linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511076
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-142-7
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-107-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Generative Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change

Buch 2012

Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change

Claudine Chamoreau, Isabelle Léglise

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110271430
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027133-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027143-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity

Buch 2011

Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity

Why Do Languages Undress?

John H. McWhorter

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

In John McWhorter’s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publications since the 1990s have argued that all languages of the world that lack a certain three traits together are creoles (i.e. born as pidgins a few hundred years ago and fleshed out into real languages). He also argued that in light of their pidgin birth, such languages are less grammatically complex than others, as the result of their recent birth as pidgins. These two claims have been highly controversial among creolists as well as other linguists.

In this volume, Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity, McWhorter gathers articles he has written since then, in the wake of responses from a wide range of creolists and linguists. These articles represent a considerable divergence in direction from his earlier work.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781934078402
ISBN:: 978-1-934078-37-2
ISBN:: 978-1-934078-40-2
ISBN:: 9781934078396
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

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