The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings

Name: The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings
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Isabelle Léglise Claudine Chamoreau(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 12. März 2013

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The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings
Editorial page
Title page
LCC page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Variation and change in contact settings
1. Variation and the mechanisms of language change
2. Types and outcomes of variation in multilingual settings
3. The role of ongoing variation in contact-induced change
References
PART I. Types and outcomes of variation in multilingual settings
Syntactic variation and change
1. Principles and methods of variationist sociolinguistics
2. Applying sociolinguistic methods to the diffusion of change
2.1 The realization of (ing) in English
2.2 The realization of (ai) in East London teenagers
2.3 The use of negative concord in Chicano English in Los Angeles
2.4 Variationist statistics: Weighting different factors or constraints
2.5 Social factors and syntactic variables
3. Bridging sociolinguistics and language contact
3.1 Choosing a substrate
3.2 Sampling and coding of the Bislama and Tamambo corpora
3.3 Examples of the variables
4. Results: Animacy in Tamambo and Bislama
4.1 Subjects in Tamambo
4.2 Interpreting weightings
4.3 Objects in Tamambo
4.4 Subjects in Bislama
4.5 Objects in Bislama
4.6 Summary of constraints: Transformation under transfer
5. Conclusion: Strengthening connections between sociolinguistics and language contact
References
Advancing the change?
1. Introduction
2. Languages in contact dynamics over time and space
3. Research design and methodological approach
4. The variable
5. Results
5.1 Rewind a century: Real-time analysis of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French
5.2 Fast forward again: The linguistic repertoire of Anglophones in Montreal at the end of the twentieth century
5.2.1 Anglo-montrealer French
5.2.2 Anglo-montrealer English
5.2.3 Advancing the change?
6. Conclusion
References
Morphosyntactic contact-induced language change among young speakers of Estonian Russian
1. Introduction
2. Data collection, participants, and methodology
3. Convergence
4. The grammatical approach to CS
5. CS, lexical borrowings, and mixed constructions
6. Morphosyntactic patterns of Russian-Estonian CS
6.1 Word order and government in non-monolingual genitive constructions
6.2 Infinitives in mixed constructions (verb + infinitive)
7. Discussion and conclusions
References
Intermingling speech groups
1. Introduction
2. The research design
2.1 The research area
2.2 The historical setting
2.3 The social setting
2.3.1 Samo idiosyncrasies
2.3.2 Pana idiosyncrasies
2.4 Methods and data
2.5 Working hypotheses
3. Genealogical and typological fingerprints
3.1 Typological properties of Gur languages and internal classification
3.2 Pana
3.3 Typological properties of Mande languages and internal classification
3.4 Northern Samo
4. Contact-induced morpho-syntactic changes
4.1 Nominal class markers (Pana)
4.2 Determiners and demonstratives (Samo)
4.3 WH-elements (Samo)
4.4 Possession (Pana)
4.5 Negation
4.5.1 Negation in Pana
4.5.2 Negation in Samo
4.6 Copulas and non-verbal predication
4.6.1 Pana
4.6.2 Samo
5. Conclusion
References
The interplay of inherent tendencies and language contact on French object clitics
1. Frame, methodology and data collection
2. Standard French pronominal morphology and proclitic system
3. Variation involving French object pronouns in French Guiana
4. Interference as a traditional explanation
5. Inherent tendencies as an explanation
6. The pronominal paradigm: A special non-stable domain in French and in other Romance languages
7. Final remarks
References
Contact-induced change and internal evolution
1. Introduction
2. Dialect variation in the third person unstressed pronominal system
2.1 The central variety of Peninsular Spanish
2.2 Spanish in contact with Amerindian languages
2.3 Elision of the direct object
2.3.1 Peninsular Spanish: the conservative variety
2.3.2 Intermediate varieties: the Spanish of Buenos Aires
2.3.3 Spanish in contact with Amerindian languages: More evolved varieties
2.4 The values of the preterite tenses
2.4.1 Central Peninsular Spanish
2.4.2 Ecuadorian Spanish
3. Final considerations
References
The interplay of language-internal variation and contact influence in language change
1. Introduction
2. The loss of the genitive case in Sakha
2.1 Possessive constructions in Turkic languages
2.2 Possessive constructions in Siberian languages
3. The shift of local case-marking in Evenki
3.1 Local cases in Tungusic languages
3.2 Contact influence in Evenki?
4. The fate of verbal subject agreement marking in Mongolic languages
4.1 Subject agreement marking in Mongolic languages
4.2 Historical variation and the impact of contact influence
5. The development of a future imperative in Sakha
5.1 The future imperative in the languages of Siberia
5.2 Grammaticalization out of a pre-existing periphrastic imperative form
6. Discussion and conclusions
References
Change and variation in a trilingual setting
1. Introduction
2. Evidentiality
2.1 Terminology
2.2 Evidentials in contact settings
2.3 Mediate information in the South Slavic languages
3. Pomak (Xanthi prefecture, Greece)
4. From an overt to a non-overt expression of mediate information through variation: Evidence from Pomak
4.1 Generalized use of the V-l without auxiliary
4.2 Important use of V-l without auxiliary
4.3 Variation between V-l with and without auxiliary
4.3.1 Existential "have" in the introductory formula
4.3.2 Verb repetition with intensive/durative value
4.3.3 Modals/inchoatives + da + indicative V
4.3.4 Coordination
4.3.5 Other cases
4.4 V-l with auxiliary, no verbs without auxiliary
5. A multiple causation analysis
5.1 Sociolinguistic factors: Oral tradition loss
5.2 Internal factors: the temporal subordinators indicating the tale's sphere
5.3 Language contact factors
5.3.1 The trilingual setting
5.3.2 Mediate information markers in contact
6. Change and variation in a multilingual setting
References
Afterword
References
Index

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