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The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-induced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A variety of explanations are identified and their relationships are analyzed. Only a multifaceted methodology enables this fine-grained approach to contact-induced change. A range of methodologies are proposed, but the chapters generally have their roots in a typological perspective. The contributors...

L activite d expertise et les discours d individus eriges ou auto-proclames en experts sont devenus omnipresents dans la societe contemporaine. Cet ouvrage traite des discours et rapports qu ils fournissent ou qui sont produits en leur nom. Il confronte les points de vue de plusieurs champs disciplinaires des sciences humaines et sociales: sciences politiques, droit, sociologie, sociologie politique, sciences de l information et de la communication, analyse conversationnelle, linguistique et analyse de discours sont ainsi convoques. L ambition de ce livre est de faire communiquer les apports...

This book proposes a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies.