The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact

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The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of investigation in its own right and featuring 26 chapters, this handbook brings together a broad range of approaches to contact linguistics, including: experimental and observational approaches and formal theories; a focus on social and cognitive factors that impact the outcome of language contact situations and bilingual language processing; the emergence of new languages and speech varieties in contact situations, and contact linguistic phenomena in urban speech and linguistic landscapes. With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, the four sections of this text deal with methodological and theoretical approaches, the factors that condition and shape language contact, the impact of language contact on individuals, and language change, repertoires and formation. This handbook is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in language contact in particular regions of the world, including Anatolia, Eastern Polynesia, the Balkans, Asia, Melanesia, North America, and West Africa. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact Part 1 Methods and theoretical approaches 1 Processing multilingual data 2 Language contact in the lab 3 A variationist perspective on language contact 4 The 4-M model: different routes in production for different morphemes 5 Theoretical approaches to the grammar of code-switching 6 Usage-based approaches Part 2 Processes and dimensions 7 Social factors 8 Language contact: pragmatic factors 9 Cognitive factors of language contact 10 Typological factors 11 Cross-language contact in the developing grammars of bilingual children 12 First language attrition in the twenty-first century: how continued L1 contact in the digital age fuels language attrition theorizing Part 3 Outcomes 13 Borrowing 14 Code-switching and bilinguals’ grammars 15 Convergence 16 Creoles and pidgins: why the latter are not the ancestors of the former 17 Mixed Languages 18 Linguistic landscape and urban multilingualism 19 Urban youth speech styles in multilingual settings Part 4 Linguistic areas 20 The Balkans 21 Anatolia 22 Language contact in the Asian region 23 Eastern Polynesia 24 Linguistic Melanesia 25 Language contact in North America 26 Language contact in West Africa Index