The Oxford handbook of language contact /
Grant, Anthony,1962-editor.
"Every language has been influenced in some way by other languages. In many cases, this is reflected in words which have been absorbed from other languages as the names for newer items or ideas, such as perestroika, manga or intifada (from Russian, Japanese and Arabic respectively). In other cases, the influence of other languages goes further, and includes the addition of new sounds, grammatical forms and idioms to the pre-existing language. English's structure has been shaped in such a way by the effects of Norse, French, Latin and Celtic. English is not alone in its openness to these influences. Potentially any features can be transferred from one language to another if the sociolinguistic and structural circumstances are right. New languages -pidgins, creoles and mixed languages- can come into being as the result of language contact. This book examines the various forms of contact-induced linguistic change and the levels of language which have provided instances of these influences. In addition it provides accounts of how language contact has affected some twenty languages, spoken and signed, from all parts of the world. Each chapter is written by experts, in many cases native speakers of the language in question, each with many years of studying and analysing the field. Drawing on the most up-to-date work on relevant language an themes, this book is an invaluable account of the possibilities and products of contact-induced linguistic change"--
"Every language has been influenced in some way by other languages. In many cases, this is reflected in words which have been absorbed from other languages as the names for newer items or ideas, such as perestroika, manga or intifada (from Russian, Japanese and Arabic respectively). In other cases, the influence of other languages goes further, and includes the addition of new sounds, grammatical forms and idioms to the pre-existing language. English's structure has been shaped in such a way by the effects of Norse, French, Latin and Celtic. English is not alone in its openness to these influences. Potentially any features can be transferred from one language to another if the sociolinguistic and structural circumstances are right. New languages -pidgins, creoles and mixed languages- can come into being as the result of language contact. This book examines the various forms of contact-induced linguistic change and the levels of language which have provided instances of these influences. In addition it provides accounts of how language contact has affected some twenty languages, spoken and signed, from all parts of the world. Each chapter is written by experts, in many cases native speakers of the language in question, each with many years of studying and analysing the field. Drawing on the most up-to-date work on relevant language an themes, this book is an invaluable account of the possibilities and products of contact-induced linguistic change"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction and conspectus: what is language contact or CILC? / Anthony P. Grant -- Theories of language contact / Donald Winford -- Phonetics, phonology and CILC / Thomas Klein, E-Ching Ng, Anthony Grant -- Morphology and CILC / Francesco Gardani -- Syntax and CILC / Malcolm Ross -- Semantics and CILC / Brian Mott, Natalia Laso -- Sociolinguistic, sociological and sociocultural approaches to CILC / Graham Thurgood -- The role of code-mixing and code-switching in CILC / Ad Backus -- First and second language acquisition and CILC / Eva Eppler and Gabriel Ozón -- CILC and endangered languages analysis and documentation / Alexandra Aikhenvald -- Pidgins / Mikael Parkvall -- Creoles / John McWhorter -- Mixed languages / Norval Smith, Anthony Grant -- Irish / Raymond Hickey -- Welsh / Clive Grey -- English / Joan Beal, Mark Faulkner -- Spanish / Miriam Bouzouita -- Tagdal / Carlos M. Benítez-Torres -- Goemai / Birgit Hellwig -- Berber / Lameen Souag -- Ossetic / Oleg Belyaev -- Neo-Aramaic / Eleanor Coghill -- Malayalam / P. Sreekumar -- Korean / Ho-min Sohn -- Khmer / John Haiman -- Warlpiri and Light Warlpiri / Carmel O'Shannessy -- Tok Pisin / Adam Blaxter Paliwala -- Reef Island languages / Åshild Næss -- Eskimo/Aleut / Anna Berge -- Lower Mississippi as a linguistic area / David Kaufman -- American Sign Language / David Pozos-Quinto and Robert Adam -- Guaraní / Jorge Gomez-Rendón -- Cape Verdean Creole / Marlyse Baptista, et al.
Languages in contact.
Language and languages
Linguistic change.