Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change (eBook)

Language Families, Typological Resemblance, and Perceived Similarity

Juliane Besters-Dilger, Cynthia Dermarkar, Stefan Pfänder, Achim Rabus (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
418 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-11-033845-4 (ISBN)

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Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects of pre-existing structural congruency between the affected languages at the time of their initial contact, using the Romance and Slavic languages as examples. In contact of this kind, both genetic and typological similarities play a part.

J. Besters-Dilger, C. Dermarkar, St. Pfänder, and A. Rabus, University of Freiburg, Germany.

Inhalt

Introduction 9
Part 1: Contact-induced change between closely related languages 21
Convergence in the Baltic-Slavic contact zone: Triangulation approach 23
Convergence and congruence due to contact between the South Slavic languages 51
The case of Czech-Slovak language contact and contact-induced phenomena 69
Belarusian and Russian in the Mixed Speech of Belarus 101
Lingua Franca in the Western Mediterranean: between myth and reality 130
Intimate family reunions: code-copying between Turkic relatives 145
Part 2: Contact-induced changes in scenarios with looser family ties 155
Language contact in a multilingual setting: The attractive force of Italo-romance dialects on Italian in Montreal 157
Balkan Slavic and Balkan Romance: from congruence to convergence 176
The convergence of Czech and German between the years 900 and 1500 192
Part 3: Typological congruence and perceived similarity 207
Contact-induced language change and typological congruence 209
Similarity effects in language contact: Taking the speakers’ perceptions of congruence seriously 227
Doing copying: Why typology doesn’t matter to language speakers 247
South Siberian Turkic languages in linguistic contact: Altay-kiži nominalizer constructions as a test case 266
French meets Arabic in Cairo: discourse markers as gestures 283
Language mixing and language fusion: when bilingual talk becomes monolingual 302
Part 4: “Doing being family”: language families and language ideologies 343
Siblings in contact: the interaction of Church Slavonic and Russian 345
Transparency of morphological structures as a feature of language contact among closely related languages: Examples from Bulgarian and Czech contact with Russian 360
Avoiding typological affinity: “negative borrowing” as a strategy of Corsican norm finding 376
Sociolinguistic and areal factors promoting or inhibiting convergence within language families 398

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 3-11-033845-9 / 3110338459
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-033845-4 / 9783110338454