Questioning language contact : : limits of contact, contact at its limits /

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

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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, lang...

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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.)
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  • Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Robert Nicolaï
  • 1 Contact des langues et contraintes de la description : réflexions épistémologiques sur les ‘limites’, à partir du songhay septentrional / Robert Nicolaï
  • 2 Le « parler plurilingue » comme lieu d’émergence de variétés de contact / Georges Lüdi
  • 3 Towards a Usage-Based Account of Language Change: Implications of Contact Linguistics for Linguistic Theory / Ad Backus
  • 4 Contact de langues et connectivité écolinguistique / Juan Carlos Godenzzi
  • 5 Linguistic Variation, Cognitive Processes and the Influence of Contact / Angelita Martínez and Adriana Speranza
  • 6 Contact and Ethnicity in “Youth Language” Description: In Search of Specificity / Françoise Gadet and Philippe Hambye
  • 7 How Far-Reaching are the Effects of Contact? Parasitic Gapping in Wisconsin German and English / Alyson Sewell and Joseph Salmons
  • 8 Code-Switching in Historical Materials: Research at the Limits of Contact Linguistics / Janne Skaffari Janne Skaffari and Aleksi Mäkilähde
  • 9 Contact-Induced Language Change in Bilingual Language Processing / Inga Hennecke
  • 10 Limites objectives et limitations subjectives des effets de contact entre parlers / Andrée Tabouret-Keller
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Concepts and Notions.

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