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Title Questioning Language Contact : Limits of Contact, Contact at its Limits
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (350 pages)
Series Brill Studies in Language Contact and Dynamics of Language ; Volume 1
Brill Studies in language contact and dynamics of language ; Volume 1
Contents List of Maps, Tables and Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Questioning Language Contact as 'Concept'; Chapitre 1 Contact des langues et contraintes de la description : réflexions épistémologiques sur les ''limites', à partir du songhay septentrional; Chapitre 2 Le " parler plurilingue " comme lieu d'émergence de variétés de contact; Chapter 3 Towards a Usage-Based Account of Language Change: Implications of Contact Linguistics for Linguistic Theory; Chapitre 4 Contact de langues et connectivité écolinguistique
Chapter 5 Linguistic Variation, Cognitive Processes and the Influence of ContactPart 2 Questioning Language Contact as 'Phenomenon'; Chapter 6 Contact and Ethnicity in "Youth Language" Description: In Search of Specificity; Chapter 7 How Far-Reaching are the Effects of Contact? Parasitic Gapping in Wisconsin German and English; Chapter 8 Code-Switching in Historical Materials: Research at the Limits of Contact Linguistics; Chapter 9 Contact-Induced Language Change in Bilingual Language Processing; Part 3 Questioning Language Contact as 'Construction'
Chapitre 10 Limites objectives et limitations subjectives des effets de contact entre parlersIndex of Authors; Index of Languages; Index of Concepts and Notions
Summary The study of language contact is considered a worthwhile scientific pursuit. Now that it is becoming increasingly ''mainstream'', however, the question is how to proceed; and how to avoid the negative consequences of mainstreamed research? This book critically reviews some aspects of this question
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Languages in contact.
Linguistic change.
Language and languages -- Variation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
Language and languages -- Variation
Languages in contact
Linguistic change
Språkkontakter.
Form Electronic book
Author Nicolaï, Robert
ISBN 9789004279056
9004279059
1322128189
9781322128184
9004279040
9789004279049