The Mixed Language Debate : : Theoretical and Empirical Advances /

The Mixed Language Debate : : Theoretical and Empirical Advances / / ed. by Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker.

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Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness. They combine structures inherited from different parent languages, often resulting in odd and unique splits that present a challenge to theories of contact-induced change as well as geneti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Backus, Ad,
Bakker, Peter,
Croft, William,
Golovko, Evgeniy V.,
Matras, Yaron,
Mous, Maarten,
Myers-Scotton, Carol,
Stolz, Thomas,
Thomason, Sarah G.,
HerausgeberIn:
Bakker, Peter,
Matras, Yaron,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2003
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 145
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Physical Description:1 online resource (325 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The study of mixed languages
  • Social factors and linguistic processes in the
  • emergence of stable mixed languages
  • Mixed languages and acts of identity: An
  • evolutionary approach
  • What lies beneath: Split (mixed) languages as
  • contact phenomena
  • Mixed languages as autonomous systems
  • Mixed languages: Re-examining the structural
  • prototype
  • Language contact and group identity: The role of
  • "folk" linguistic engineering
  • The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation
  • and its relevance for Ma’á
  • Can a mixed language be conventionalized
  • alternational codeswitching?
  • Not quite the right mixture: Chamorro and Malti as
  • candidates for the status of mixed language
  • Backmatter

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