| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 325 pages) |
| Series |
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 145 |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 145
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| Contents |
The study of mixed languages / Yaron Matras and Peter Bakker -- Social factors and linguistic processes in the emergence of stable mixed languages / Sarah G. Thomason -- Mixed languages and acts of identity / William Croft -- What lies beneath: split (mixed) languages as contact phenomena / Carol Myers-Scotton -- Mixed languages as autonomous systems / Peter Bakker -- Mixed languages: re-examining the structural prototype / Yaron Matras -- Language contact and group identity: the role of "folk" linguistic engineering / Evgeniy V. Golovko -- The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation and its relevance for Ma'á / Maarten Mous -- Can a mixed language be conventionalized alternational codeswitching? / Ad Backus -- Not quite the right mixture / Thomas Stolz |
| Summary |
Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness. They combine structures inherited from different parent languages, often resulting in odd and unique splits that present a challenge to theories of contact-induced change as well as genetic classification. This collection of articles is devoted to the theoretical and empirical controversies that surround the study of Mixed Languages. Issues include definitions and prototypes, similarities and differences to other contact languages such as pidgins and creoles, the role of codeswitchin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Languages, Mixed.
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Languages in contact.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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Computer network resources
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| Author |
Matras, Yaron, 1963-
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Bakker, Peter, 1959-
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| LC no. |
2003069087 |
| ISBN |
3110197243 |
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9783110197242 |
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9783110177763 alkaline paper |
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3110177765 alkaline paper |
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alkaline paper |
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