Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Placing usage, meaning and mind at the core of contact-induced variation and change 1
4. Part I: Conceptual foundations and categorization principles in contact-induced change
5. 1. Reconceptualizing language contact phenomena as cognitive processes 23
6. 2. English-Estonian code-copying in blogs: Combining a contact linguistic and cognitive approach 51
7. 3. Reanalysis in language contact: Perceptive ambiguity, salience, and catachrestic reinterpretation 81
8. 4. When third-wave sociolinguistics and prototype analysis meet: The social meaning of sibilant palatalization in a Flemish Urban Vernacular 127
9. Part II: Associating concepts: Metaphors and cultural models in contact
10. 5. Notions of Containment and Support in Irish English: Implications of language contact on the cognition of space 159
11. 6. Conceptual metaphors as contact phenomena? The influence of local concepts on source and target domain 187
12. 7. Cultural models in contact: Revealing attitudes toward regional varieties of Italian with Vector Space Models 213
13. Part III: Construction Grammar: Contact in and through more and less schematic form-meaning pairs
14. 8. Language alternation and the state-event contrast: A case-study of Dutch-Turkish and Dutch-Moroccan heritage speakers 253
15. 9. Partially schematic constructions as engines of development: Evidence from German-English bilingual acquisition 279
16. 10. Constructional renovation: The role of French legal language in the survival of the nominative-and-infinitive in Dutch 305
17. Index 339