Cognitive Contact Linguistics: Placing Usage, Meaning and Mind at the Core of Contact-Induced Variation and Change

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Cognitive Contact Linguistics

Placing Usage, Meaning and Mind at the Core of Contact-Induced Variation and Change

Edited by: Eline Zenner , Ad Backus and Esme Winter-Froemel

Languages: English, English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Volume 62 | Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

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This volume serves to illustrate the promising insights to be gained when cross-fertilizing Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics, which each hold crucial ingredients to an encompassing study of contact-induced variation and change.

Combining the study of the individual mind with the study of shared context, bridging research on experience and perspective with research on variation and change, and tackling the methodological complexities that this empirical approach to mental categorization entails, help us determine how the meaningful units that make up language are categorized and structured in the bi- and multilingual mind and, by extension, in any human mind.

Together, the ten papers in this volume reveal the complexities of the interaction between usage, meaning and mind in contact-induced variation and change, which we hope will inspire future research exploring the possibilities of the cross-fertilization we have labeled Cognitive Contact Linguistics.

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Eline Zenner, KU Leuven, Brussels, Belgium; Ad Backus, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Esme Winter-Froemel, Universität Trier.

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Introduction: Placing usage, meaning and mind at the core of contact-induced variation and change
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Part I: Conceptual foundations and categorization principles in contact-induced change
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1. Reconceptualizing language contact phenomena as cognitive processes
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Alexander Onysko

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2. English-Estonian code-copying in blogs: Combining a contact linguistic and cognitive approach
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Anna Verschik

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3. Reanalysis in language contact: Perceptive ambiguity, salience, and catachrestic reinterpretation
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Esme Winter-Froemel

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4. When third-wave sociolinguistics and prototype analysis meet: The social meaning of sibilant palatalization in a Flemish Urban Vernacular
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Stefania Marzo, Eline Zenner and Dorien Van de Mieroop

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Part II: Associating concepts: Metaphors and cultural models in contact
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5. Notions of Containment and Support in Irish English: Implications of language contact on the cognition of space
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Stephen Lucek

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6. Conceptual metaphors as contact phenomena? The influence of local concepts on source and target domain
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Anna Finzel and Hans-Georg Wolf

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7. Cultural models in contact: Revealing attitudes toward regional varieties of Italian with Vector Space Models
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Stefano De Pascale, Stefania Marzo and Dirk Speelman

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Part III: Construction Grammar: Contact in and through more and less schematic form-meaning pairs
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8. Language alternation and the state-event contrast: A case-study of Dutch-Turkish and Dutch-Moroccan heritage speakers
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Bram Vertommen

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9. Partially schematic constructions as engines of development: Evidence from German-English bilingual acquisition
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Antje Endesfelder Quick, Ad Backus and Elena Lieven

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10. Constructional renovation: The role of French legal language in the survival of the nominative-and-infinitive in Dutch
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Dirk Noël and Timothy Colleman

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Index
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November 19, 2018

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9783110619430

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November 19, 2018

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9783110616781

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July 6, 2020

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9783110707991

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342

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110619430

eBook ISBN: 9783110619430

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Cognitive Linguistics; Contact-Induced Variation and Change; Bilingualism; Semantics

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Researchers in Cognitive Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Psycholinguistics

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Cognitive Contact Linguistics

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About this book

Author / Editor information

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Placing usage, meaning and mind at the core of contact-induced variation and change

1. Reconceptualizing language contact phenomena as cognitive processes

2. English-Estonian code-copying in blogs: Combining a contact linguistic and cognitive approach

3. Reanalysis in language contact: Perceptive ambiguity, salience, and catachrestic reinterpretation

4. When third-wave sociolinguistics and prototype analysis meet: The social meaning of sibilant palatalization in a Flemish Urban Vernacular

5. Notions of Containment and Support in Irish English: Implications of language contact on the cognition of space

6. Conceptual metaphors as contact phenomena? The influence of local concepts on source and target domain

7. Cultural models in contact: Revealing attitudes toward regional varieties of Italian with Vector Space Models

8. Language alternation and the state-event contrast: A case-study of Dutch-Turkish and Dutch-Moroccan heritage speakers

9. Partially schematic constructions as engines of development: Evidence from German-English bilingual acquisition

10. Constructional renovation: The role of French legal language in the survival of the nominative-and-infinitive in Dutch

Index

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