Language Contact
Language Contact
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Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, this book combines his original research with an up-to-date introduction to key concepts, to provide a holistic, original theory of contact linguistics. Going beyond a descriptive outline of contact phenomena, it introduces a theory of contact-induced language change, linking structural change to motivations in discourse and language processing. Since the first edition was published, the field has rapidly grown, and this fully revised edition covers all of the most recent developments, making it an invaluable resource for researchers and advanced students in linguistics.
- Combines an up-to-date introduction to current concepts with the author's first-hand original research and data examples
- Brings together concepts and methods from different research traditions, to offer a wide range of insights
- Prompts discussion on a new and original theoretical model of language contact
Product details
October 2020Paperback
9781108440080
426 pages
242 × 171 × 23 mm
0.75kg
30 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. An emerging multilingual repertoire
- 3. Societal multilingualism
- 4. Acquiring and maintaining a bilingual repertoire
- 5. Crossing the boundaries: codeswitching in conversation
- 6. The replication of linguistic 'matter'
- 7. Lexical borrowing
- 8. Grammatical and phonological borrowing
- 9. Converging structures: pattern replication
- 10. Contact languages
- 11. Outlook.
