The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay

A Case of Extreme Language Contact
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23413-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1340 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages

In The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay: A Case of Extreme Language Contact, the synchrony and diachrony of Sri Lanka Malay are investigated from a variety of angles: Experts on South Asia, South East Asia, Creole Studies, Areal Linguistics, Typology, and Sociolinguistics all contribute their share to a truly global analysis of one of the most extreme cases of language contact, where the Malays changed the whole morphosyntax of their language in as little as just over three centuries.
The genesis of Sri Lanka Malay informs theories of language contact, language change, and 'creolization', as well as sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and a critical analysis of the 'endangered language' discourse.

Zielgruppe

Historical linguists, creolists, specialists in South and South East Asia as well as anyone interested in diaspora populations, construction of identity and the history of Sri Lanka.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nordhoff, Sebastian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

PART I
OVERVIEW
1. Introduction
Sebastian Nordhoff

2. Synchronic Grammar of Sri Lanka Malay
Sebastian Nordhoff

PART II
SOCIOLOGY, HISTORY, AND DEMOGRAPHY
3. Sri Lanka Malay: New Findings on Contacts
Peter Bakker

4. Known, Inferable, and Discoverable in Sri Lankan Malay Research
Peter Slomanson

5. Issues of Power and Privilege in the Maintenance of Sri Lanka Malay: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
Romola Rassool

PART III
LANGUAGE CONTACT
6. The Lexical Sources of Sri Lanka Malay Revisited
Scott Paauw

7. Sri Lankan Languages in the South-South Asia Linguistic Area: Sinhala and Sri Lanka Malay
James W. Gair

8. Hijacked Constructions in Second Language Acquisition: Implications for Sri Lanka Malay
Ian Smith

9. The Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Sri Lanka Malay
Mohamed Jaffar

10. The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay as a Multi-Layered Process
Sebastian Nordhoff

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sebastian Nordhoff, Ph. D. (2009), University of Amsterdam, is postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Insitute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. He works on languages of Sri Lanka, language contact, and Linguistic Linked Open Data. Next to his reference grammar of Sri Lanka Malay, he has published on its synchrony and diachrony.

Contributors include Peter Bakker, James W. Gair, Mohamed Jaffar, Sebastian Nordhoff, Romola Rassool, Peter Slomanson, and Ian Smith.