Overview

Offers a panorama of case studies and approaches dealing with linguistic variation in contact settings. This book focuses on monolingual data, tracing variation and contact beneath surface homogeneity, and on bilingual data such as code-switching and other forms of variation, to trace their underlying regularities.

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Author:   Isabelle Léglise (CNRS SEDYL-CELIA) ,  Claudine Chamoreau (CNRS SEDYL-CELIA)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   12
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9789027234926

ISBN 10:   9027234922
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   12 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Variation and change in contact settings (by Leglise, Isabelle); 3. PART I. Types and outcomes of variation in multilingual settings; 4. Syntactic variation and change: The variationist framework and language contact (by Meyerhoff, Miriam); 5. Advancing the change?: Contact-induced influences and inherent tendencies in variation among pronouns with indefinite reference in Quebec French (by Blondeau, Helene); 6. Morphosyntactic contact-induced language change among young speakers of Estonian Russian (by Zabrodskaja, Anastassia); 7. Intermingling speech groups: Morpho-syntactic outcomes of language contact in a linguistic area in Burkina Faso, West Africa (by Beyer, Klaus); 8. PART II. The role of ongoing variation in contact-induced change; 9. The interplay of inherent tendencies and language contact on French object clitics: An example of variation in a French Guianese contact setting (by Leglise, Isabelle); 10. Contact-induced change and internal evolution: Spanish in contact with Amerindian languages (by Alcaine, Azucena Palacios); 11. The interplay of language-internal variation and contact influence in language change (by Pakendorf, Brigitte); 12. Change and variation in a trilingual setting: Evidentiality in Pomak (Slavic, Greece) (by Adamou, Evangelia); 13. Afterword (by Winford, Donald); 14. Index

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