Research Catalog

Title

The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings / edited by Isabelle Léglise, Claudine Chamoreau, CNRS SEDYL-CELIA.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Léglise, Isabelle
• Chamoreau, Claudine
• Léglise, Isabelle

Description

264 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"This volume is at the cross-roads between two research traditions dealing with language change: contact linguistics and language variation and change. It starts out from the notion that linguistic variation is still a little researched area in most contact-induced language change studies. Intending to fill this gap, it offers a rich panorama of case studies and approaches dealing with linguistic variation in contact settings. It concentrates both on monolingual data, tracing variation and contact beneath surface homogeneity, and on bilingual data such as code-switching and other forms of variation, to trace their underlying regularities. It investigates the relationship between variation and change in language contact settings."--pub. desc.

Series Statement

Studies in Language Variation ; v. 12

Uniform Title

Studies in language variation ; v. 12.

Subject

• Languages in contact
• Language and languages > Variation
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphosyntax
• Sociolinguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Variation and change in contact settings / Isabelle Léglise and Claudine Chamoreau -- PART I. Types and outcomes of variation in multilingual settings -- Syntactic variation and change: The variationist framework and language contact / Miriam Meyerhoff -- Advancing the change?: Contact-induced influences and inherent tendencies in variation among pronouns with indefinite reference in Quebec French / Hélène Blondeau -- Morphosyntactic contact-induced language change among young speakers of Estonian Russian / Anastassia Zabrodskaja -- Intermingling speech groups: Morpho-syntactic outcomes of language contact in a linguistic area in Burkina Faso, West Africa / Klaus Beyer and Henning Schreiber -- PART II. The role of ongoing variation in contact-induced change -- The interplay of inherent tendencies and language contact on French object clitics: An example of variation in a French Guianese contact setting / Isabelle Léglise -- Contact-induced change and internal evolution: Spanish in contact with Amerindian languages / Azucena Palacios Alcaine -- The interplay of language-internal variation and contact influence in language change / Brigitte Pakendorf -- Change and variation in a trilingual setting: Evidentiality in Pomak (Slavic, Greece) / Evangelia Adamou.

ISBN

• 9789027234926 (hb : alk. paper)
• 9027234922 (hb : alk. paper)
• 9789027272485 (eb) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012043846

OCLC

• 816031950
• SCSB-11926106

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library