Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language – serie
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Questioning Language Contact
Limits of Contact, Contact at its Limits
Inbunden, 2014
3063 kr
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This volume critically exposes problems in present language contact analysis and uses empirical findings to provide answers to the following questions. What can we learn from the study of language contact for our knowledge of languages, their dynamics and their functions (systemic elaborations, …
Yiddish as a Mixed Language
Yiddish-Slavic Language Contact and Its Linguistic Outcome
Av Ewa Geller, Michał Gajek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2082 kr
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Yiddish, the language of Eastern-European Jews, has so far been mostly described as Germanic within the framework of the traditional, divergence-based Language Tree Model. Meanwhile, advances in contact linguistics allow for a new approach, placing the idiom within the mixed language spectrum, with …
Language Formation by Adults
The Case of Sino-Russian Idiolects
Av Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Natalia Gurian m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2741 kr
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Chinese immigrants who settle in Russia’s Far East without formal instruction in the Russian language communicate with local Russians using Russian vocabulary. Each immigrant forms their language to communicate with Russians, not with family or other immigrants. The ‘single-generation languages’ …
Traces of Contact in the Lexicon
Austronesian and Papuan Studies
Inbunden, 2023
2579 kr
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What can the languages spoken today tell us about the history of their speakers? This question is crucial in insular Southeast Asia and New Guinea, where thousands of languages are spoken, but written historical records and archaeological evidence is yet lacking in most regions. While the region …
Codeswitching as an Index and Construct of Sociopolitical Identity
The Case of the Druze and Arabs in Israel
Av Eve A. Kheir
Inbunden, 2023
1801 kr
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This book presents an empirically based examination of language patterns found among the Israeli Druze community, which is profiled against that of the Arabs in Israel. The results document the emergence of a mixed language previously undescribed and provides a socio-political analysis.This study …
Dynamic Lexicon of English
A Socio-Cognitive Approach towards Loan Processes and Their Linguistic Effects
Inbunden, 2023
2459 kr
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The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.This study investigates the interrelation between use, meaning and the mind as a central issue of contact-induced linguistic variation and change, using the influence of French, …
Malacca Creole Portuguese
Sociolinguistic History before the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2026
3492 kr
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This study addresses a longstanding gap in our knowledge of Malacca Creole Portuguese during the Portuguese, Dutch, and early British colonial periods, while opening new avenues for further research. Drawing on contemporary documents, published sources, and rare linguistic materials, it presents a …
