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Author Stolz, Thomas

Title Aspects of Language Contact : New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (488 pages)
Series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, v. 35
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, v. 35
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Romancisation worldwide -- Loanword typology: Steps toward a systematic cross-linguistic study of lexical borrowability -- Modelling contact-induced change in grammar -- Loan verbs in a typological perspective -- Why we need dynamic models for sociolinguistics and language contact studies -- Constructivist theory of language contact and the Romancisation of indigenous languages -- Spanish meets Guaraní, Otomí and Quichua: A multilingual confrontation -- French influence on the native languages of Canada and adjacent USA -- Portuguese influence on Kulina -- Creolization and the fate of inflections -- Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages -- Contact-induced changes in Amerindian languages of French Guiana -- A case of weak Romancisation: Italian in East Africa -- Loan word gender: A case of romancisation in Standard German and related enclave varieties -- Backmatter
Summary This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field. In the first part of the volume, the focus is on methodology and theory. Thomas Stolz defines the study of Romancisation processes as a very promising laboratory for language-contact oriented research and theoretical work based thereon. The reader is informed about the large scale projects on loanword typology in the contribution by Martin
Notes Print version record
Subject Languages in contact.
Romance languages -- Influence on foreign languages
Linguistic change.
Languages in contact
Linguistic change
Form Electronic book
Author Bakker, Dik
Palomo, Rosa Salas
ISBN 9783110206043
3110206048