Description: Further DetailsTitle: Aspects of Language ContactCondition: NewSubtitle: New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation ProcessesISBN-10: 3110195844EAN: 9783110195842ISBN: 9783110195842Publisher: De Gruyter MoutonFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/20/2008Description: This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field. In the first part of the volume, the focus is on methodology and theory. Thomas Stolz defines the study of Romancisation processes as a very promising laboratory for language-contact oriented research and theoretical work based thereon. The reader is informed about the large scale projects on loanword typology in the contribution by Martin Haspelmath and on contact-induced grammatical change conducted by Jeanette Sakel and Yaron Matras. Christel Stolz reviews processes of gender-assignment to loan nouns in German and German-based varieties. The typology of loan verbs is the topic of the contribution by Søren Wichmann and Jan Wohlgemuth. In the articles by Wolfgang Wildgen and Klaus Zimmermann, two radically new approaches to the theory of language contact are put forward: a dynamic model and a constructivism-based theory, respectively. The second part of the volume is dedicated to more empirically oriented studies which look into language-contact constellations with a Romance donor language and a non-European recipient language. Spanish-Amerindian (Guaraní, Otomí, Quichua) contacts are investigated in the comparative study by Dik Bakker, Jorge Gómez-Rendón and Ewald Hekking. Peter Bakker and Robert A. Papen discuss the influence exerted by French on the indigenous languages ofCanada. The extent of the Portuguese impact on the Amazonian language Kulina is studied by Stefan Dienst. John Holm looks at the validity of the hypothesis that bound morphology normally falls victim to Creolization processes and draws his evidence mainly from Portuguese-based Creoles. For Austronesia, borrowings and calques from French still are an understudied phenomenon. Claire Moyse-Faurie’s contribution to this topic is thus a pioneer’s work. Similarly, Françoise Rose and Odile Renault-Lescure provide us with fresh data on language contact in French Guiana. The final article of this collection by Mauro Tosco demonstrates that the Italianization of languages of the former Italian colonies in East Africa is only weak. This volume provides the reader with new insights on all levels of language-contact related studies. The volume addresses especially a readership that has a strong interest in language contact in general and its repercussions on the phonology, grammar and lexicon of the recipient languages. Experts of Romance language contact, and specialists of Amerindian languages, Afro-Asiatic languages, Austronesian languages and Pidgins and Creoles will find the volume highly valuable.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: DEItem Weight: 884gContributor: Thomas Stolz (Edited by), Dik Bakker (Edited by), Rosa Salas Palomo (Edited by)Genre: Language & ReferenceBook Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]Author: Thomas StolzItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 155mmRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Aspects of Language Contact
Title: Aspects of Language Contact
Subtitle: New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Speci
ISBN-10: 3110195844
EAN: 9783110195842
ISBN: 9783110195842
Release Date: 05/20/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Contributor: Rosa Salas Palomo (Edited by)
Genre: Language & Reference
Item Height: 230mm
Number of Pages: 485 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Aspects of Language Contact : New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes
Publisher: DE Gruyter, Inc.
Publication Year: 2008
Subject: Romance Languages (Other), General, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Linguistics / General
Item Weight: 31.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Dik Bakker
Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [Ealt] Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
