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Handbook of Language Contact

Hickey, Raymond (Hrsg.):
The Handbook of Language Contact / ed. by Raymond Hickey. - Malden, Mass [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - XVII, 863 S. : graph. Darst. - (Blackwell handbooks in linguistics)
ISBN 978-1-405-17580-7
US$ 199,95 / £ 110,00 / EUR 126,50
DDC: 417.7

Beschreibung
The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field - ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology - combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages.

  • An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interact
  • Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars
  • Examines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world
  • Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society
  • Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics

Inhalt
Notes on Contributors. viii
Preface. xviii
Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment (Raymond Hickey). 1
PART I CONTACT AND LINGUISTICS
   1. Contact Explanations in Linguistics (Sarah Thomason). 31
   2. Genetic Classification and Language Contact (Michael Noonan). 48
   3. Contact, Convergence, and Typology (Yaron Matras). 66
   4. Contact and Grammaticalization (Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva). 86
   5. Language Contact and Grammatical Theory (Karen P. Corrigan). 106
   6. Computational Models and Language Contact (April McMahon). 128
PART II CONTACT AND CHANGE
   7. Contact and Language Shift (Raymond Hickey). 151
   8. Contact and Borrowing (Donald Winford). 170
   9. Contact and Code-Switching (Penelope Gardner-Chloros). 188
   10. Contact and Dialectology (David Britain). 208
   11. Contact and New Varieties (Paul Kerswill). 230
   12. Contact and Change: Pidgins and Creoles (John Holm). 252
PART III CONTACT AND SOCIETY
   13. Scenarios for Language Contact (Pieter Muysken). 265
   14. Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact (Carmen Fought). 282
   15. Contact and Sociolinguistic Typology (Peter Trudgill). 299
   16. Contact and Language Death (Suzanne Romaine). 320
   17. Fieldwork in Contact Situations (Claire Bowern). 340
PART IV CASE STUDIES OF CONTACT
   18. Macrofamilies, Macroareas, and Contact (Johanna Nichols). 361
   19. Contact and Prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest (Theo Vennemann). 380
   20. Contact and the History of Germanic Languages (Paul Roberge). 406
   21. Contact and the Early History of English (Markku Filppula). 432
   22. Contact and the Development of American English (Joseph C. Salmons and Thomas C. Purnell). 454
   23. Contact Englishes and Creoles in the Caribbean (Edgar W. Schneider). 478
   24. Contact and Asian Varieties of English (Umberto Ansaldo). 498
   25. Contact and African Englishes (Rajend Mesthrie). 518
   26. Contact and the Celtic Languages (Joseph F. Eska). 538
   27. Spanish and Portuguese in Contact (John M. Lipski). 550
   28. Contact and the Development of the Slavic Languages (Lenore A. Grenoble). 581
   29. Contact and the Finno-Ugric Languages (Johanna Laakso). 598
   30. Language Contact in the Balkans (Brian D. Joseph). 618
   31. Contact and the Development of Arabic (Kees Versteegh). 634
   32. Turkic Language Contacts (Lars Johanson). 652
   33. Contact and North American Languages (Marianne Mithun). 673
   34. Language Contact in Africa: A Selected Review (G. Tucker Childs). 695
   35. Contact and Siberian Languages (Brigitte Pakendorf). 714
   36. Language Contact in South Asia (Harold F. Schiffman). 738
   37. Language Contact and Chinese (Stephen Matthews). 757
   38. Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia (Patrick McConvell). 770
   39. Language Contact in the New Guinea Region (William A. Foley). 795
   40. Contact Languages of the Pacific (Jeff Siegel). 814
Author Index. 837
Subject Index. 844

Herausgeber
RAYMOND HICKEY is Professor of Linguistics at Essen University, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English (especially Irish English) and general questions of language contact, shift, and change as well as computer corpus processing. He has published widely, the most recent titles being A Sound Atlas of Irish English (2004), Legacies of Colonial English (2004), Dublin English: Evolution and Change (2005), Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms (2007), and Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change (2010). He has also published over 80 articles on various issues within linguistics and produced an electronic corpus of Irish English. Homepage.

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