Language change : the interplay of internal, external, and extra-linguistic factors / / edited by Mari C. Jones, Edith Esch

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002
• Edizione: Reprint 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Disciplina: 417/.7
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic change; Languages in contact
• Classificazione: ES 425
• Altri autori: JonesMari C EschEdith <1945->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction / Farrar, Kimberley / Jones, Mari C. -- 1. Levelling -- Dialect contact and koinéization: the case of northern France / Hornsby, David -- The depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation / Pooley, Tim -- Jordanian and Palestinian dialects in contact: vowel raising in Amman / Al-Wer, Enam -- "Salience" as an explanatory factor in language change: evidence from dialect levelling in urban England / Kerswill, Paul / Williams, Ann -- My Dad's auxiliaries / Esch, Edith -- 2. Convergence -- Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: convergence on the Island of Guernsey / Jones, Mari C. -- Modern Greek: towards a standard language or a new diglossia? / Holton, David -- Standard English and the lexicon: why so many different spellings? / Wright, Laura -- Latin and Arabic evolutionary processes: some reflections / Cremona, Joseph -- There's sheep and there's penguins: convergence, "drift" and "slant" in New Zealand and Falkland Island English / Britain, David / Sudbury, Andrea -- 3. Adaptive mechanisms -- Convergence in the brain: the leakiness of bilinguals' sound systems / Watson, Ian -- Language contact in early bilinguals: the special status of function words / Deuchar, Margaret / Vihman, Marilyn May -- 4. Code-copying -- Contact-induced change in a code-copying framework / Johanson, Lars -- Karaim: a high-copying language / Csató, Éva Ágnes -- Author index -- Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume focuses on the interface of different motivating factors that contribute to language change. It combines linguistic case studies with current theoretical debate and contains hitherto unpublished data from English, French, Karaim, Modern Greek, Jordanian, Spanish, Latin and Arabic.
• Titolo autorizzato: Language change
• ISBN: 3-11-089259-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815764803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]