Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change

Description

The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic changes appearing in contact settings. Contact-induced changes are dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. Through a multifaceted methodology, the volume takes a fine-grained approach with its roots in a typological perspective. The chapters investigate topics such as the role of multilingual speakers, the differences between contact-induced change and change in endangered languages, and the relationship between contact-induced change and internal change. List of contributors A multi-model approach to contact-induced language change An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change Contact-induced change as an innovation Language contact in language obsolescence The emergence of a marked-nominative system in Tehuelche or Aonek’o ʔaʔjen: a contact-induced change? On polysemy copying and grammaticalization in language contact The attraction of indefinite articles: on the borrowing of Spanish un in Chamorro On form and function in language contact: a case study from the Amazonian Vaupes region The Basque articles -a and bat and recent contact theories Contact phenomena/code copying in Indian Ocean Creoles: the post-abolition period Grammaticalization of modal auxiliary verbs in Pima Bajo: an internal or a contact-induced change? Contact, convergence, and conjunctions: a cross-linguistic study of borrowing correlations among certain kinds of discourse, phasal adverbial, and dependent clause markers On a Latin-Greek diachronic convergence: the perfects with Latin habeo/Greek échō and a participle Author index Language index Subject index