Questioning language contact : : limits of contact, contact at its limits / / edited by Robert Nicolaï.

• TeilnehmendeR: Nicolaï, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Studies in Language Contact and Dynamics of Language 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.; Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 Contact des langues et contraintes de la description : réflexions épistémologiques sur les ‘limites’, à partir du songhay septentrional /; 2 Le « parler plurilingue » comme lieu d’émergence de variétés de contact /; 3 Towards a Usage-Based Account of Language Change: Implications of Contact Linguistics for Linguistic Theory /; 4 Contact de langues et connectivité écolinguistique /; 5 Linguistic Variation, Cognitive Processes and the Influence of Contact /; 6 Contact and Ethnicity in “Youth Language” Description: In Search of Specificity /; 7 How Far-Reaching are the Effects of Contact? Parasitic Gapping in Wisconsin German and English /; 8 Code-Switching in Historical Materials: Research at the Limits of Contact Linguistics /; 9 Contact-Induced Language Change in Bilingual Language Processing /; 10 Limites objectives et limitations subjectives des effets de contact entre parlers /; Index of Authors --; Index of Languages --; Index of Concepts and Notions.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004279059
• ISSN: 2214-5613
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Robert Nicolaï.

This volume critically exposes problems in present language contact analysis and uses empirical findings to provide answers to the following questions. What can we learn from the study of language contact for our knowledge of languages, their dynamics and their functions (systemic elaborations, language practices, semiotic developments)? How should linguistic theory incorporate the empirical findings of language contact studies, and how could these alter underlying postulates of existing models (choice of analysis and epistemic framework)? Which role has language contact been playing in the history of linguistic research and academic life? And how has this idea influenced individual researchers and their approaches?