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Stability and Divergence in Language Contact
Factors and Mechanisms
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Kurt Braunmüller
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English
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2014
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Convergence, i.e. the increase of inter-systemic similarities, is usually considered the default development in language contact situations. This volume focuses on the other logical possibilities of diachronic development, namely stability and divergence – two well-attested, but under-researched phenomena. The contributions investigate the sociolinguistic and structural factors and mechanisms that lead to or at least reinforce both types of non-convergence, despite of language contact. The contributions cover a wide range of language contact situations, including standard and non-standard varieties.
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Johan Taeldeman, University of Ghent:
Among the linguistic studies of contact-induced variation/change this book occupies an exceptional position. Whereas research on contact between languages and intralingual varieties traditionally focuses on convergence as a kind of natural effect of language contact and/or claims that stability is only possible when there is/was no contact at all, this book demonstrates that (1) language contact may go together with structural stability and (2) language contact may even initiate or reinforce diverging structural developments. It gives an insight into the factors and mechanisms which may trigger stability or divergence, including both sociolinguistic and structural parameters of language contact situations.
Among the linguistic studies of contact-induced variation/change this book occupies an exceptional position. Whereas research on contact between languages and intralingual varieties traditionally focuses on convergence as a kind of natural effect of language contact and/or claims that stability is only possible when there is/was no contact at all, this book demonstrates that (1) language contact may go together with structural stability and (2) language contact may even initiate or reinforce diverging structural developments. It gives an insight into the factors and mechanisms which may trigger stability or divergence, including both sociolinguistic and structural parameters of language contact situations.
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Part I: Theoretical aspects
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An extended perspective on language contact Karoline Kühl and Kurt Braunmüller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Low and High German Kristian Berg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Analyzing syntax and prosody of Bulgarian judezmo Susann Fischer, Christoph Gabriel and Elena Kireva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Internal, external and extralinguistic aspects of divergence in modern dialects and ethnolects of Dutch Frans Hinskens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Suzanne Aalberse and Francesca Moro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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The case of the Cypriot Greek koiné Stavroula Tsiplakou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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The fate of ‘vulnerable’ categories in Northern Norwegian Hilde Sollid, Philipp Conzett and Åse Mette Johansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Social and personal motivations Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda and Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Helge Sandoy, Ragnhild Lie Anderson and Maria-Rosa Doublet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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November 14, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9789027269553
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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298
eBook ISBN:
9789027269553
Keywords for this book
Contact Linguistics; Sociolinguistics and Dialectology; Theoretical linguistics; Historical linguistics
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
