Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond / / ed. by Miriam Bouzouita, Renata Enghels, Clara Vanderschueren.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Afonso, Susana,; Bergareche, Bruno Camus,; Bouzouita, Miriam,; Enghels, Renata,; Gras, Pedro,; Gómez Seibane, Sara,; Rasia, Eugenia Mangialavori,; Regueira, Xosé Luís,; Sansiñena, María Sol,; Schulte, Kim,; Wolf, Johanna,; Álvarez-Pérez, Xosé A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bouzouita, Miriam,; Enghels, Renata,; Vanderschueren, Clara ,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie , 457
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 312 p.)

This book aims to provide a better understanding of convergence and non-convergence phenomena, such as divergence, from different theoretical perspectives. It brings together nine case studies that deal with contact between languages found in the Iberian Peninsula (Castilian, Catalan, Portuguese and Basque), between Spanish or Portuguese and another language (such as English), and between different varieties from Europe and other continents. The volume thus unites views from two fields that rarely interact: contact linguistics and dialectology. It discusses the mechanisms and consequences of language contact within the Ibero-Romance world, a geographical space characterised by a high rate of multilingual speakers and settings. The contributions deal with various combinations of convergence and divergence, for example between different varieties of the same language, language stability despite contact, as well as less studied aspects, such as the relation between language contact and second language acquisition, the linguistic landscape perspective of language contact, and divergence in linguistic identity construction.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond -- Part 1: Convergence and divergence in contact situations in the Iberian Peninsula -- Gender loss in accusative clitics in Basque Spanish -- Exploring historical linguistic convergence between Basque and Spanish -- Structural convergence of two Ibero-Romance varieties -- Language contact on the Spanish- Portuguese border -- Portuguese as a contact language in Galicia -- Part 2: Convergence and divergence across Ibero-Romance varieties outside Europe -- Linguistic perceptions on Spanglish discourse settings -- Building locations from directional prepositions -- Discourse structure, constructions and regional variation -- Impersonal se constructions in the Portuguese of East Timor -- Index