Convergence and divergence in language contact situations
By: edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Juliane House.
Contributors: Braunmüller, Kurt, 1948-; House, Juliane.; Universität Hamburg. Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit.
Series: Hamburg studies on multilingualism -- v. 8; Hamburg studies on multilingualism -- v. 8.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9789027219282; 9789027288820
Subjects: Languages in contact -- Congresses; Bilingualism -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Mostly based on the contributions to a symposium held in October 2007 at the Hamburg Research Centre on Multilingualism.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Divergence, convergence, contact : challenges for the genealogical classification of languages / Georg Bossong; title: Increases in complexity as a result of language contact / Östen Dahl; title: Converging genetically related languages : endstation code mixing? / Kurt Braunmüller; title: Converging languages, diverging varieties : innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish / Steffen Höder; title: Converging verbal phrases in related languages : a case study from Faro-Danish and Danish-German language contact situations / Karoline H. Kühl & Hjalmar P. Petersen; title: Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation / Viktor Becher, Juliane House & Svenja Kranich; title: On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations / Robert E. Vann; title: Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish / Susana Cortés, Conxita Lleó & Ariadna Benet; title: Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German, monolingual Spanish, and bilingual German-Spanish children / Javier Arias & Conxita Lleó.