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
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Notes on Contributors viii
Preface xviii
Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment 1
Raymond Hickey
Part I Contact and Linguistics 29
1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics 31
Sarah Thomason
2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact 48
Michael Noonan
3 Contact, Convergence, and Typology 66
Yaron Matras
4 Contact and Grammaticalization 86
Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva
5 Language Contact and Grammatical Theory 106
Karen P. Corrigan
6 Computational Models and Language Contact 128
April Mc Mahon
Part II Contact and Change 149
7 Contact and Language Shift 151
Raymond Hickey
8 Contact and Borrowing 170
Donald Winford
9 Contact and Code-Switching 188
Penelope Gardner-Chloros
10 Contact and Dialectology 208
David Britain
11 Contact and New Varieties 230
Paul Kerswill
12 Contact and Change: Pidgins and Creoles 252
John Holm
Part III Contact and Society 263
13 Scenarios for Language Contact 265
Pieter Muysken
14 Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact 282
Carmen Fought
15 Contact and Sociolinguistic Typology 299
Peter Trudgill
16 Contact and Language Death 320
Suzanne Romaine
17 Fieldwork in Contact Situations 340
Claire Bowern
Part IV Case Studies of Contact 359
18 Macrofamilies, Macroareas, and Contact 361
Johanna Nichols
19 Contact and Prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest 380
Theo Vennemann
20 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages 406
Paul Roberge
21 Contact and the Early History of English 432
Markku Filppula
22 Contact and the Development of American English 454
Joseph C. Salmons and Thomas C. Purnell
23 Contact Englishes and Creoles in the Caribbean 478
Edgar W. Schneider
24 Contact and Asian Varieties of English 498
Umberto Ansaldo
25 Contact and African Englishes 518
Rajend Mesthrie
26 Contact and the Celtic Languages 538
Joseph F. Eska
27 Spanish and Portuguese in Contact 550
John M. Lipski
28 Contact and the Development of the Slavic Languages 581
Lenore A. Grenoble
29 Contact and the Finno-Ugric Languages 598
Johanna Laakso
30 Language Contact in the Balkans 618
Brian D. Joseph
31 Contact and the Development of Arabic 634
Kees Versteegh
32 Turkic Language Contacts 652
Lars Johanson
33 Contact and North American Languages 673
Marianne Mithun
34 Language Contact in Africa: A Selected Review 695
G. Tucker Childs
35 Contact and Siberian Languages 714
Brigitte Pakendorf
36 Language Contact in South Asia 738
Harold F. Schiffman
37 Language Contact and Chinese 757
Stephen Matthews
38 Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia 770
Patrick Mc Convell
39 Language Contact in the New Guinea Region 795
William A. Foley
40 Contact Languages of the Pacific 814
Jeff Siegel
Author Index 837
Subject Index 844
Giới thiệu về tác giả
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).
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