Arabic and contactinduced language change, linguistics. Pdf this volume deals with some never before described morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact find. The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Dynamics in interlinguistics article pdf available in pragmatics 14 january 1991 with 25 reads how we measure reads. Since the 1970s, the study of contactinduced language change has been given new impulses.
Contactinduced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical. There is certainly evidence that both children and adults produce linguistic innovations, and contact induced change provides some of the clearest examples. Grammaticalization is based on universal strategies of conceptual transfer. Pdf a pragmatic perspective on contactinduced language. Can language contact be integrated into accounts of language change based on cases of internally motivated change.
Contactinduced linguistic innovations glendon college. Looking for contact induced change in heritage languages. Pdf contactinduced language change christopher lucas. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field. Contact induced grammaticalization evidence from bilingual acquisition stephen matthews and virginia yip university of hong kong chinese university of hong kong it is widely acknowledged that developments in bilingual individuals parallel, and ultimately underlie, those taking place in the course of contact induced change. Symposium language contact and the dynamics of language. Diachronic syntax workshop carmel oshannessy, university of michigan what kinds of existing data speak to the question of the roles of adults and children in contactinduced change. Three main perspectives on contactinduced language change are presented here, corresponding to three possible approaches to discussing the subject as part of a complex whole.
These speakers may cause change in the maintained language, and this. The bulk of work on contactinduced change describes the actual changes that result from numerous factors see the special issue of bilingualism. Mixed marriage scenarios adults and children played a strong role. The primary purpose of the articles it presents is to identify different factors in language change. On the basis of the evidence available, this strategy involves a mechanism of the kind sketched in 2. An activity oriented approach to contactinduced language change. Modeling contact induced language change naominagy 1.
The final section of this paper 9 explores some of the consequences of this result for language history and language endangerment. Contactinduced language change has been subject to many scienti. A multimodel approach to contactinduced language change. Contactinduced language change in bilingual language. Modeling contactinduced language change naominagy 1. Language change is accelerated by language contact, especially by contact that occurs. Contactinduced grammaticalization rests on a strategy used for transferring some grammatical concept from the model language m to the replica language r. On contactinduced grammaticalization masaryk university.
One such example is according to thomason 1998 language contact between english and montana salish also called flathead, a salishan language spoken in northwestern montana. A pragmatic perspective on contactinduced language change. This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the ongoing debate about what is possible in contactinduced language change. Contactinduced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A multimodel approach to contactinduced language change claudine chamoreau and isabelle leglise this volume deals with some never before described morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact is a cause of any linguistic change that would have been less likely to occur outside a particular contact situation thomason 2001. This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the ongoing debate about what is possible in contact induced language change. A typological classification of language change the typological classification of language change that we will use is given in 1. Contact induced language change on the other hand is an areally confined process resulting from specific historical events. Open publication the volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Nasa astrophysics data system ads vantsevich, vladimir v.
From this perspective, language change is characterized as. In the first part of the volume, the focus is on methodology and theory. Chapter 4, typological change, deals with the structural effects that contact induced grammaticalization may have on a replica language, includ. Contactinduced language change on the other hand is an areally confined process resulting from specific historical events. There is certainly evidence that both children and adults produce linguistic innovations, and contactinduced change provides some of. Age and contactinduced language change linguistics. Looking for contact induced change in heritage cantonese. The problem linguists since the neogrammarians have stressed the need to examinesocial factors in the study oflanguage change. Pdf the dynamics of contactinduced language change. This volume deals with some never before described morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Dialects in contact of interference in a language contact situation. What this suggests is that the two constitute quite divergent phenomena and, in fact, in the relevant literature they tend to be described as mutually exclusive processes. Contactinduced changes can roughly be divided into three sorts, in terms of their.
Language contacts at the crossroads of disciplines xi linguistic phenomena and the versatile nature of actual language contact situations, it is necessary to join forces to be able to see the forest from the trees and to find where our respective traditions could benefit from each other. Arabic and contactinduced language change is a twoyear project, running from 2017 to 2019. However, there is still little consensus regarding the roles that these factors play or even what the factors are. Dynamics of contactinduced language change language contact and bilingualism series 2. Language contact external causes of change caused by encounters with other languages or different dialects of the same language three types of the effects of other languages. The editors pursue three main goals, namely, first, to provide a set of linguistic data never discussed before. Language use as an interface between sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic processes in language attrition and language shift. Contactinduced changes in the expression of information. The case of andean pues by martin antonio ocon gamarra b. Pdf contactinduced language change in bilingual language. Looking for contactinduced change in heritage languages. Request pdf contactinduced language change in bilingual language processing the phenomenon of language contact and its impacts have been discussed very controversially in the current research. Pdf constraints on contactinduced linguistic change. Nov 27, 2003 grammaticalization is based on universal strategies of conceptual transfer.
Age and contactinduced language change lsa linguistic institute 20. Dialects in contact pdf contactinduced language change in bilingual language processing the phenomenon of language contact and its impacts have been discussed very controversially in the current research. Language dominance is not the same as language maintenance. Contactinduced grammaticalization evidence from bilingual acquisition stephen matthews and virginia yip university of hong kong chinese university of hong kong it is widely acknowledged that developments in bilingual individuals parallel, and ultimately underlie, those taking place in the course of contactinduced change. Looking for contactinduced change in heritage cantonese. Prices do not include postage and handling if applicable. A variety of explanations are identified and their relationships are analyzed. On contactinduced grammaticalization bernd heine and tania. Causes and mechanisms of language change wikisofia. The contrastive effects of borrowing and interference distinguished above can very. These speakers may cause change in the maintained language, and this change involves source language agentivity winford 2005. Contactinduced language change christopher lucas final prepublication.
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