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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454086803321

Titolo

Aspects of language contact [[electronic resource] ] : new theoretical, methodological and empirical findings with special focus on romancisation processes / / edited by Thomas Stolz, Dik Bakker, Rosa Salas Palomo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008

ISBN

1-282-19658-8

9786612196584

3-11-020604-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Collana

Empirical approaches to language typology, , 0933-761X ; ; 35

Classificazione

ES 555

Altri autori (Persone)

StolzThomas

BakkerDik

Salas PalomoRosa

Disciplina

417/.7

Soggetti

Languages in contact

Romance languages - Influence on foreign languages

Linguistic change

Electronic books.

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Romancisation worldwide -- Loanword typology: Steps toward a systematic cross-linguistic study of lexical borrowability -- Modelling contact-induced change in grammar -- Loan verbs in a typological perspective -- Why we need dynamic models for sociolinguistics and language contact studies -- Constructivist theory of language contact and the Romancisation of indigenous languages -- Spanish meets Guaraní, Otomí and Quichua: A multilingual confrontation -- French influence on the native languages of Canada and adjacent USA -- Portuguese influence on Kulina -- Creolization and the fate of inflections -- Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages -- Contact-induced changes in Amerindian languages of French Guiana -- A case of weak Romancisation: Italian in East Africa -- Loan word gender: A case of romancisation in Standard German and related enclave varieties --



Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

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.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778180103321

Autore

Stevens Mitchell L.

Titolo

Creating a class : college admissions and the education of elites / / Mitchell L. Stevens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2007]

©2009

ISBN

0-674-26758-3

0-674-04403-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages)

Disciplina

378.1610973

Soggetti

Universities and colleges - United States - Admission

Education, Higher - United States

Elite (Social sciences) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 267-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. A School in a Garden -- 2. Numbers -- 3. Travel -- 4. Sports -- 5. Race -- 6. Decisions -- 7. Yield -- 8. The Aristocracy of Merit --  Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Stevens explains how elite colleges and universities have assumed their central role in the production of the nation's most privileged classes. This book makes clear that, for better or worse, these schools now define the standards of youthful accomplishment in American culture more generally.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910219901603321

Titolo

The book report

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Columbus, Ohio], : Linworth Pub., ©1982-©2002

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

027.8/223/0973

Soggetti

School libraries - United States

Library science - United States

Children - Books and reading - United States

Children - Books and reading

Library science

School libraries

Periodicals.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from cover.

Place of publication varies.