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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785849503321

Titolo

Language contact [[electronic resource] ] : theoretical and empirical studies / / edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1992

ISBN

3-11-085184-9

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

234 p. : ill

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; ; 60

Classificazione

ES 550

Altri autori (Persone)

JahrErnst Håkon <1948->

Disciplina

306.4/4

Soggetti

Languages in contact

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contains papers from the fifth International Tromsø Symposium on Language held at the University of Tromsø in September 1989.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Language contacts between Southern Sami and Scandinavian / Bergsland, Knut -- A contact feature in the phonology of a northern Norwegian dialect / Bull, Tove -- The social and linguistic development of Scandoromani / Hancock, Ian -- Language contact in the Pacific: Samoan influence on Tokelauan / Hovdhaugen, Even -- "You can never tell where a word comes from": language contact in a diffuse setting / Page, Robert B. Le -- The substratum in grammar and discourse / Mithun, Marianne -- Dialect socialization in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Spitsbergen): a fruitful chaos / Mæhlum, Brit -- Ethnolinguistic minorities within the European community: migrants as ethnolinguistic minorities / Nelde, Peter H. -- Isolation, contact, and lexical variation in a tribal setting / Rischel, Jørgen -- Language contact in focused situations / Tabouret-Keller, Andrée -- Dialect typology and social structure / Trudgill, Peter -- Borrowing and non-borrowing in Walapai / Winter, Werner -- Subject Index -- Backmatter