Chamoreau / Léglise Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-027143-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 401 Seiten

Reihe: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]

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.

Zielgruppe

Students and Researchers of Contact Linguistics, Language Change, Language Typology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chamoreau, Claudine

Léglise, Isabelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;List of contributors;7
2;A multi-model approach to contact-induced language change;11
3;An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change;27
4;Contact-induced change as an innovation;63
5;Language contact in language obsolescence;87
6;The emergence of a marked-nominative system in Tehuelche or Aonek’o .a.jen: a contact-induced change?;121
7;On polysemy copying and grammaticalization in language contact;135
8;The attraction of indefinite articles: on the borrowing of Spanish un in Chamorro;177
9;On form and function in language contact: a case study from the Amazonian Vaupes region;205
10;The Basque articles -a and bat and recent contact theories;241
11;Contact phenomena/code copying in Indian Ocean Creoles: the post-abolition period;275
12;Grammaticalization of modal auxiliary verbs in Pima Bajo: an internal or a contact-induced change?;295
13;Contact, convergence, and conjunctions: a cross-linguistic study of borrowing correlations among certain kinds of discourse, phasal adverbial, and dependent clause markers;321
14;On a Latin-Greek diachronic convergence: the perfects with Latin habeo/Greek écho and a participle;369
15;Author index;387
16;Language index;394
17;Subject index;400

Über Autor(innen)

Claudine Chamoreau and Isabelle Léglise, CNRS SEDYL-CELIA, Villejuif, France.