| Description |
1 online resource (883 pages) |
| Contents |
The Handbook of Language Contact; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment; Part I Contact and Linguistics; 1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics; 2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact; 3 Contact, Convergence, and Typology; 4 Contact and Grammaticalization; 5 Language Contact and Grammatical Theory; 6 Computational Models and Language Contact; Part II Contact and Change; 7 Contact and Language Shift; 8 Contact and Borrowing; 9 Contact and Code-Switching; 10 Contact and Dialectology; 11 Contact and New Varieties |
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12 Contact and Change: Pidgins and CreolesPart III Contact and Society; 13 Scenarios for Language Contact; 14 Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact; 15 Contact and Sociolinguistic Typology; 16 Contact and Language Death; 17 Fieldwork in Contact Situations; Part IV Case Studies of Contact; 18 Macrofamilies, Macroareas, and Contact; 19 Contact and Prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest; 20 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages; 21 Contact and the Early History of English; 22 Contact and the Development of American English; 23 Contact Englishes and Creoles in the Caribbean |
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24 Contact and Asian Varieties of English25 Contact and African Englishes; 26 Contact and the Celtic Languages; 27 Spanish and Portuguese in Contact; 28 Contact and the Development of the Slavic Languages; 29 Contact and the Finno-Ugric Languages; 30 Language Contact in the Balkans; 31 Contact and the Development of Arabic; 32 Turkic Language Contacts; 33 Contact and North American Languages; 34 Language Contact in Africa: A Selected Review; 35 Contact and Siberian Languages; 36 Language Contact in South Asia; 37 Language Contact and Chinese; 38 Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia |
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39 Language Contact in the New Guinea Region40 Contact Languages of the Pacific; Author Index |
| Summary |
"The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field - ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology - combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages. An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interact Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars Examines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics" -- Publisher's Description |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Languages in contact -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Languages.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Languages in contact.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781444318166 |
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1444318160 |
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