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Author: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-08
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1108415822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalysis of bilinguals' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.
Author: Aleksandra I͡Urʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0199207836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation, this book contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which sets out a theory of contact-induced change, and chapters which analyse the effects of language contact on grammatical systems in a variety of languages.
Author: N.J. Enfield
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1135144613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese. The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics. Gricean pragmatics, semantic change, grammaticalization, language contact, and areal linguistics. The book also examines how changes in the speech of individuals actually become changes in large-scale public convention, 'language contact' is reconsidered, and traditional distinctions such as that between 'internal' and 'external' linguistic mechanisms are challenged. This groundbreaking new book is for specialists in Southeast Asian linguistics as well as scholars of descriptive semantics and pragmatics, grammaticalisation, linguistic change and evolution, areal linguistics and language contact, history and linguistic anthropology.
Author: Yaron Matras
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-08-27
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 311019919X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication).
Author: Yaron Matras
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9783110196283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReview text: "Grammatical Borrowing is a must for every student of language contact. It is hoped that from this laudable project a methodological and empirical revolution of language contact studies will result."In: STUF 63.2/2010.
Author: Yaron Matras
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-09-10
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1139480529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism, the acquisition of two or more languages from birth, second language acquisition in adulthood, language change, linguistic typology, language processing and the structure of the language faculty. It explains the effects of multilingualism on society and language policy, as well as the consequences that long-term bilingualism within communities can have for the structure of languages. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, the book provides a clear analysis of such phenomena as language convergence, grammatical borrowing, and mixed languages.
Author: Tej K. Bhatia
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-09-19
Total Pages: 978
ISBN-13: 1118332415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK**Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism. Includes the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team, and coverage of seven new topics ranging from global media to heritage language learning Provides extensively revised coverage of bilingual and multilingual communities, polyglot aphasia, creolization, indigenization, linguistic ecology and endangered languages, multilingualism, and forensic linguistics Brings together a global team of internationally-renowned researchers from different disciplines Covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from neuro- and psycho-linguistic research to studies of media and psychological counseling Assesses the latest issues in worldwide linguistics, including the phenomena and the conceptualization of 'hyperglobalization', and emphasizes geographical centers of global conflict and commerce
Author: Elinor Ochs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-12-12
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780521558280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores a rich variety of linkages between grammar and social interaction.
Author: Kofi Yakpo
Publisher: Language Science Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 3961101337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPichi is an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. It is an offshoot of 19th century Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with West African relatives like Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, and Ghanaian Pidgin English, as well as with the English-lexifier creoles of the insular and continental Caribbean. This comprehensive description presents a detailed analysis of the grammar and phonology of Pichi. It also includes a collection of texts and wordlists. Pichi features a nominative-accusative alignment, SVO word order, adjective-noun order, prenominal determiners, and prepositions. The language has a seven-vowel system and twenty-two consonant phonemes. Pichi has a two-tone system with tonal minimal pairs, morphological tone, and tonal processes. The morphological structure is largely isolating. Pichi has a rich system of tense-aspect-mood marking, an indicative-subjunctive opposition, and a complex copular system with several suppletive forms. Many features align Pichi with the Atlantic-Congo languages spoken in the West African littoral zone. At the same time, characteristics like the prenominal position of adjectives and determiners show a typological overlap with its lexifier English, while extensive contact with Spanish has left an imprint on the lexicon and grammar as well.
Author: Debra Ziegeler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1614514097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another. Case studies are illustrated in which the possibility of a 'merger'-construction is offered to resolve such problems. The book is intended for students of construction theories, variation studies, or any researcher of contact grammars
