Diversity in Contact / / hrsg. von Nataliya Levkovych.

The contributions in the edited volume deal with different aspects of language contact which were hitherto not or not sufficiently considered in linguistic research. The impact of the colonial languages Polish and German on the structures of the written varieties of Latvian is surveyed and compared....

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:German
Series:Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) , 21
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 530 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Part I
  • Differential impact of colonial languages on written languages
  • Contact in World Englishes at the nexus of language and culture
  • Far beyond the Caucasus
  • Scenarios of Basque Language Contact
  • The relevance of origin
  • On the morphosyntax of place names vs. common nouns in pidgins and creoles
  • Places, manners, and the areal phonology of Europe
  • Travellers in time and space
  • Part II
  • The city as multilingual utopia
  • Fluid registers and fixed language concepts in postcolonial spaces
  • Prolegomena to a study of code-switching in Togo and its metapragmatic functions
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages, Language Families, and Linguistic Areas
  • Index of Subjects