Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change
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Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- List of contributors
- A multi-model approach to contact-induced language change
- An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change
- Contact-induced change as an innovation
- Language contact in language obsolescence
- The emergence of a marked-nominative system in Tehuelche or Aonek’o ʔaʔjen: a contact-induced change?
- On polysemy copying and grammaticalization in language contact
- The attraction of indefinite articles: on the borrowing of Spanish un in Chamorro
- On form and function in language contact: a case study from the Amazonian Vaupes region
- The Basque articles -a and bat and recent contact theories
- Contact phenomena/code copying in Indian Ocean Creoles: the post-abolition period
- Grammaticalization of modal auxiliary verbs in Pima Bajo: an internal or a contact-induced change?
- Contact, convergence, and conjunctions: a cross-linguistic study of borrowing correlations among certain kinds of discourse, phasal adverbial, and dependent clause markers
- On a Latin-Greek diachronic convergence: the perfects with Latin habeo/Greek échō and a participle
- Author index
- Language index
- Subject index