Speakers And Structures In Language Contact
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| Author | : Barbara Hans-Bianchi |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2024-07-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3111188345 |
This book is a collection of innovative studies on language contact. It contains novel works on unexplored issues related to language contact in different settings and aims to contribute multi-perspective insights to the current state of the art on language contact. Novel approaches to contact-related change, variation, attrition, and emergence of new varieties are explored from the lens of sociolinguistic, typological, synchronic, and diachronic perspectives. The contact settings vary from official and majority languages to minority, endangered and/or non-official varieties in different parts of the world.
| Author | : Barbara Hans-Bianchi |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2024-07-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311118904X |
This book is a collection of innovative studies on language contact. It contains novel works on unexplored issues related to language contact in different settings and aims to contribute multi-perspective insights to the current state of the art on language contact. Novel approaches to contact-related change, variation, attrition, and emergence of new varieties are explored from the lens of sociolinguistic, typological, synchronic, and diachronic perspectives. The contact settings vary from official and majority languages to minority, endangered and/or non-official varieties in different parts of the world.
| Author | : Yaron Matras |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2009-09-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139480529 |
Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism, the acquisition of two or more languages from birth, second language acquisition in adulthood, language change, linguistic typology, language processing and the structure of the language faculty. It explains the effects of multilingualism on society and language policy, as well as the consequences that long-term bilingualism within communities can have for the structure of languages. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, the book provides a clear analysis of such phenomena as language convergence, grammatical borrowing, and mixed languages.
| Author | : Annick De Houwer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 678 |
| Release | : 2018-11-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781107179219 |
The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign language classes, or mature and older adults learning and using more than one language to meet life's needs and desires. This Handbook offers a developmentally oriented and socially contextualized survey of research into individual bilingualism, comprising the learning, use and, as the case may be, unlearning of two or more spoken and signed languages and language varieties. A wide range of topics is covered, from ideologies, policy, the law, and economics, to exposure and input, language education, measurement of bilingual abilities, attrition and forgetting, and giftedness in bilinguals. Also explored are cross- and intra-disciplinary connections with psychology, clinical linguistics, second language acquisition, education, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, contact linguistics, and sign language research.
| Author | : Yaron Matras |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 431 |
| Release | : 2020-09-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108574130 |
Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, this book combines his original research with an up-to-date introduction to key concepts, to provide a holistic, original theory of contact linguistics. Going beyond a descriptive outline of contact phenomena, it introduces a theory of contact-induced language change, linking structural change to motivations in discourse and language processing. Since the first edition was published, the field has rapidly grown, and this fully revised edition covers all of the most recent developments, making it an invaluable resource for researchers and advanced students in linguistics.
| Author | : Esme Winter-Froemel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023 |
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| Author | : Peter K. Austin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 581 |
| Release | : 2011-03-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 113950083X |
It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language endangerment, language shift and language death, but to anyone interested in the languages and cultures of the world. It is accessible both to specialists and non-specialists: researchers will find cutting-edge contributions from acknowledged experts in their fields, while students, activists and other interested readers will find a wealth of readable yet thorough and up-to-date information.
| Author | : Rena Torres Cacoullos |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2018-03-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108415822 |
Analysis of bilinguals' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.
| Author | : Maria Polinsky |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2018-08-16 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1107047641 |
A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.
| Author | : Kurt Braunmüller |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027219281 |
This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities. Its nine contributions cover both theoretical and typological aspects, such as the classification of languages, the role of language contact, linguistic complexity and spontaneous speech innovations, and convergence and divergence processes in translation, (morpho)syntax and phonology/phonetics. Taken together, these studies provide challenges for linguistic theories that generalize from situations of monolingualism suggesting instead that a sound linguistic theory cannot be a theory for just one single, isolated language but must be a theory for at least two languages. It must also account for the fact that some structures involved in contact situations are not kept apart but develop in such a way that the distance decreases between the languages involved.
