Balkan Slavic and Balkan Romance: from congruence to convergence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1: Contact-induced change between closely related languages
5. Convergence in the Baltic-Slavic contact zone 15
6. Convergence and congruence due to contact between the South Slavic languages 43
7. The case of Czech-Slovak language contact and contact-induced phenomena 61
8. Belarusian and Russian in the Mixed Speech of Belarus 93
9. Lingua Franca in the Western Mediterranean: between myth and reality 122
10. Intimate family reunions: code-copying between Turkic relatives 137
11. Part 2: Contact-induced changes in scenarios with looser family ties
12. Language contact in a multilingual setting 149
13. Balkan Slavic and Balkan Romance: from congruence to convergence 168
14. The convergence of Czech and German between the years 900 and 1500 184
15. Part 3: Typological congruence and perceived similarity
16. Contact-induced language change and typological congruence 201
17. Similarity effects in language contact 219
18. Doing copying: Why typology doesn’t matter to language speakers 239
19. South Siberian Turkic languages in linguistic contact 258
20. French meets Arabic in Cairo: discourse markers as gestures 275
21. Language mixing and language fusion: when bilingual talk becomes monolingual 294
22. Part 4: “Doing being family”: language families and language ideologies
23. Siblings in contact: the interaction of Church Slavonic and Russian 337
24. Transparency of morphological structures as a feature of language contact among closely related languages 352
25. Avoiding typological affinity: “negative borrowing” as a strategy of Corsican norm finding 368
26. Sociolinguistic and areal factors promoting or inhibiting convergence within language families 390