Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change / / ed. by Claudine Chamoreau, Isabelle Léglise.

Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-induced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A variety o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (393 p.) :; 1 Map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • List of contributors
  • Table of contents
  • A multi-model approach to contact-induced language change
  • An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change
  • Contact-induced change as an innovation
  • Language contact in language obsolescence
  • The emergence of a marked-nominative system in Tehuelche or Aonek’o ʔaʔjen: a contact-induced change?
  • On polysemy copying and grammaticalization in language contact
  • The attraction of indefinite articles: on the borrowing of Spanish un in Chamorro
  • On form and function in language contact: a case study from the Amazonian Vaupés region
  • The Basque articles -a and bat and recent contact theories
  • Contact phenomena/code copying in Indian Ocean Creoles: the post-abolition period
  • Grammaticalization of modal auxiliary verbs in Pima Bajo: an internal or a contact-induced change?
  • Contact, convergence, and conjunctions: a cross-linguistic study of borrowing correlations among certain kinds of discourse, phasal adverbial, and dependent clause markers
  • On a Latin-Greek diachronic convergence: the perfects with Latin habeo/Greek échō and a participle
  • Author index
  • Language index
  • Subject index