The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings
Published on 12. March 2013
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-90-272-3492-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is at the cross-roads between two research traditions dealing with language change: contact linguistics and language variation and change. It starts out from the notion that linguistic variation is still a little researched area in most contact-induced language change studies. Intending to fill this gap, it offers a rich panorama of case studies and approaches dealing with linguistic variation in contact settings. It concentrates both on monolingual data, tracing variation and contact beneath surface homogeneity, and on bilingual data such as code-switching and other forms of variation, to trace their underlying regularities. It investigates the relationship between variation and change in language contact settings.
The book will be relevant for students and researchers in contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, language variation and change, sociology of language, descriptive linguistics and linguistic typology.
The book will be relevant for students and researchers in contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, language variation and change, sociology of language, descriptive linguistics and linguistic typology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3492-6 (9789027234926)
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Isabelle Léglise | Claudine Chamoreau
The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings
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03/2013
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Content
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Variation and change in contact settings (by Leglise, Isabelle); 3. PART I. Types and outcomes of variation in multilingual settings; 4. Syntactic variation and change: The variationist framework and language contact (by Meyerhoff, Miriam); 5. Advancing the change?: Contact-induced influences and inherent tendencies in variation among pronouns with indefinite reference in Quebec French (by Blondeau, Helene); 6. Morphosyntactic contact-induced language change among young speakers of Estonian Russian (by Zabrodskaja, Anastassia); 7. Intermingling speech groups: Morpho-syntactic outcomes of language contact in a linguistic area in Burkina Faso, West Africa (by Beyer, Klaus); 8. PART II. The role of ongoing variation in contact-induced change; 9. The interplay of inherent tendencies and language contact on French object clitics: An example of variation in a French Guianese contact setting (by Leglise, Isabelle); 10. Contact-induced change and internal evolution: Spanish in contact with Amerindian languages (by Alcaine, Azucena Palacios); 11. The interplay of language-internal variation and contact influence in language change (by Pakendorf, Brigitte); 12. Change and variation in a trilingual setting: Evidentiality in Pomak (Slavic, Greece) (by Adamou, Evangelia); 13. Afterword (by Winford, Donald); 14. Index