The handbook of language contact [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Raymond Hickey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910139383103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• ISBN: 1-118-44869-3; 1-280-58578-1; 9786613615619; 1-118-44868-5; 1-4051-9711-0; 1-4443-1815-2; 1-4443-1816-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (942 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell handbooks in linguistics
• Altri autori (Persone): HickeyRaymond <1954->
• Disciplina: 417.7
• Soggetti: Languages in contact; Areal linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Praise for The Handbook of Language Contact""; ""Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment""; ""1 Recent Studies of Language Contact""; ""2 Generalizations Concerning Contact""; ""3 Terminology in Contact Studies""; ""4 Conclusion""; ""Part I: Contact and Linguistics""; ""1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics""; ""1 Some Background Concepts""; ""2 Contact Explanations and Internal Explanations of Change: Social Predictors""; ""3 Contact Explanations and Internal Explanations of Change: Linguistic Predictors""""4 Conclusion""; ""2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 What Do We Mean by the Genetic Classification of Languages?""; ""3 Models of Language Families in Genetic Linguistics""; ""4 Genetic Classification and Language Contact""; ""5 Language Contact and Speciation""; ""6 Final Thoughts""; ""3 Contact, Convergence, and Typology""; ""1 A Definition of Contact""; ; ""2 Convergence""; ""3 Convergence and Typological Change""; ""4 Typology and Generalizations on Contact-Induced Change""""5 Conclusion""; ""4 Contact and Grammaticalization""; ""1 Introduction: Contact-Induced Grammaticalization""; ""2 Process versus Product""; ""3 Ordinary versus Replica Grammaticalization""; ""4 Grammaticalization versus Polysemy Copying""; ""5 Propelling versus Accelerating Forces in Language Contact""; ""6 Grammaticalization Areas""; ""7 Change in Typological Profile""; ""8 Constraints on Contact-Induced Grammatical Change""; ""9 Sociolinguistic versus Linguistic Factors""; ""10 Conclusions""; ""5 Language Contact and Grammatical Theory""""1 Introduction: The Research Context""; ""2 Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Change and the Generative Model""; ""3 Case Studies""; ""4 Conclusion""; ""6 Computational Models and Language Contact""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Loanwords and the Lexicon""; ""3 Phonetics and Phonology""; ""4 Morphosyntax""; ""5 Looking Forward""; ""Part II: Contact and Change""; ""7 Contact and Language Shift""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 What Can Be Traced to Contact?""; ""3 The Search for Categorial Equivalence""; ""4 The Prosody of Transfer""; ""5 Coincidental Parallels""""6 What Does Not Get Transferred?""; ""7 Interpreting Vernacular Features""; ""8 The Influence of English on Contemporary Irish""; ""9 Conclusion""; ""8 Contact and Borrowing""; ""1 Defining Borrowing""; ""2 Lexical Borrowing""; ""3 Integration of Loanwords""; ""4 Borrowing of Structural Elements""; ""5 Constraints on Borrowing of Overt Elements""; ""6 Linguistic Constraints on Borrowing""; ""7 Constraints on Borrowing of Structural Elements""; ""8 Is There Borrowing of Structural Patterns?""; ""9 Borrowing and Other Contact Phenomena""; ""10 Borrowing and Classic Code-Switching""