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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781101103321

Titolo

Convergence and divergence in language contact situations [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Juliane House

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009

ISBN

1-282-44489-1

9786612444890

90-272-8882-8

Descrizione fisica

viii, 241 p

Collana

Hamburg studies on multilingualism, , 1571-4934 ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

BraunmüllerKurt <1948->

HouseJuliane

Disciplina

417/.2

Soggetti

Languages in contact

Bilingualism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Mostly based on the contributions to a symposium held in October 2007 at the Hamburg Research Centre on Multilingualism.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Divergence, convergence, contact : challenges for the genealogical classification of languages / Georg Bossong -- Increases in complexity as a result of language contact / Östen Dahl -- Converging genetically related languages : endstation code mixing? / Kurt Braunmüller -- Converging languages, diverging varieties : innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish / Steffen Höder -- Converging verbal phrases in related languages : a case study from Faro-Danish and Danish-German language contact situations / Karoline H. Kühl & Hjalmar P. Petersen -- Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation / Viktor Becher, Juliane House & Svenja Kranich -- On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations / Robert E. Vann -- Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish / Susana Cortés, Conxita Lleó & Ariadna Benet -- Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German, monolingual Spanish, and bilingual German-Spanish children / Javier Arias & Conxita Lleó.