Questioning Language Contact : Limits of Contact, Contact at its Limits.
Title:
Questioning Language Contact : Limits of Contact, Contact at its Limits.
Author:
Nicolaï, Robert.
ISBN:
9789004279056
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (350 pages)
Series:
Brill Studies in Language Contact and Dynamics of Language ; v.1
Brill Studies in Language Contact and Dynamics of Language
Contents:
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 Contact -- Part 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 parlers -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Concepts and Notions.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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