Dynamics of contact-induced language change [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Claudine Chamoreau, Isabelle Léglise

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Disciplina: 417/.7
• Soggetto topico: Languages in contact; Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphosyntax; Language and languages - Variation; Multilingualism; Sociolinguistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: ES 555
• Altri autori: ChamoreauClaudine LégliseIsabelle
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- List of contributors -- Table of contents -- A multi-model approach to contact-induced language change / Chamoreau, Claudine / Léglise, Isabelle -- An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change / Matras, Yaron -- Contact-induced change as an innovation / Chamoreau, Claudine -- Language contact in language obsolescence / Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. -- The emergence of a marked-nominative system in Tehuelche or Aonek'o ʔaʔjen: a contact-induced change? / Garay, Ana Fernández -- On polysemy copying and grammaticalization in language contact / Heine, Bernd -- The attraction of indefinite articles: on the borrowing of Spanish un in Chamorro / Stolz, Thomas -- On form and function in language contact: a case study from the Amazonian Vaupés region / Epps, Patience -- The Basque articles -a and bat and recent contact theories / Manterola, Julen -- Contact phenomena/code copying in Indian Ocean Creoles: the post-abolition period / Kriegel, Sibylle -- Grammaticalization of modal auxiliary verbs in Pima Bajo: an internal or a contact-induced change? / Estrada-Fernández, Zarina -- Contact, convergence, and conjunctions: a cross-linguistic study of borrowing correlations among certain kinds of discourse, phasal adverbial, and dependent clause markers / Grant, Anthony P. -- On a Latin-Greek diachronic convergence: the perfects with Latin habeo/Greek échō and a participle / Bruno, Carla -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-induced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A variety of explanations are identified and their relationships are analyzed. Only a multifaceted methodology enables this fine-grained approach to contact-induced change. A range of methodologies are proposed, but the chapters generally have their roots in a typological perspective. The contributors recognize the precautionary principle: for example, they emphasize the difficulty of studying languages that have not been described adequately and for which diachronic data are not extensive or reliable. Three main perspectives on contact-induced language change are presented. The first explores the role of multilingual speakers in contact-induced language change, especially their spontaneous innovations in discourse. The second explores the differences between ordinary contact-induced change and change in endangered languages. The third discusses various aspects of the relationship between contact-induced change and internal change.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dynamics of contact-induced language change
• ISBN: 9786613600585; 1-280-57098-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452114503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Language contact and bilingualism ; ; 2.