Language Contact

ISBN-13: 9781108425117 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 426 str.

Yaron Matras

Opis

Revised edition of a seminal introduction to language contact, providing an overview of the field and its most recent developments.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. An emerging multilingual repertoire; 3. Societal multilingualism; 4. Acquiring and maintaining a bilingual repertoire; 5. Crossing the boundaries: codeswitching in conversation; 6. The replication of linguistic 'matter'; 7. Lexical borrowing; 8. Grammatical and phonological borrowing; 9. Converging structures: pattern replication; 10. Contact languages; 11. Outlook.