Towards a Holistic Understanding of Language Contact in the Past
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Edited by:
Nikolaos Lavidas
About this book
The tendency to view grammar in isolation from multilingual settings is so pervasive that even modern approaches do not often overcome the monolingual paradigm. At the same time, the effects of language contact very clearly manifest themselves, as discussed in the literature on language contact, contact-induced and "shared" grammaticalization, sometimes resulting in areal patterns particularly relevant for linguistic typology. It appears that there continues to be an important gap between the fact of commonly happening grammatical transfer in language contact and our theorizing about such grammars. This gap needs to be narrowed and eventually closed for the sake of both theories of grammar and theories of language contact. In fact, one can take this further and ask the question: Do we really need a separate theory of language contact? The rather attractive alternative would be to reduce the effects of language contact to theories of language acquisition, sociolinguistics, external factors as well as more generalised cognitive mechanisms such as copy and analogy which once properly interwoven they can offer holistic explanations. The aim of the edited volume is to contribute to this and other related questions.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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1 Introduction
1 - Part I: Historical language contact: focus on diachrony and typology
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2 Towards a reductionist view of language contact effects
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3 Towards an integrated account of the history of Northern Samoyedic
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4 Language contact in South Asia — typology meets diachrony
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5 Albanian of Western Thrace: contact, areal convergence, and ideology in the past and the present
85 - Part II: Historical language contact: focus on bilingualism
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6 Language contact effects, (bi)directionality and feature interpretability: morphosyntactic data across domains in Greek/Vlach Aromanian bilinguals
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7 A situationally based model of language and (trans)languaging in multilingual ecologies
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8 Contact as alignment: community norms in bilingual Ontario, Canada
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