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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827812703321

Titolo

The handbook of language contact / / edited by Raymond Hickey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

9786613615619

9781118448694

1118448693

9781280585784

1280585781

9781118448687

1118448685

9781405197113

1405197110

9781444318159

1444318152

9781444318166

1444318160

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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""

Sommario/riassunto

The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field - ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology - combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages.    * An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interact  * Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars  * Examines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world  * Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society  * Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics