Language Contact and Linguistic Aspects of Bilingualism

Longxing Wei (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

319 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0912-8 (ISBN)

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This book consolidates earlier insights and proposes a model of contact linguistics and an innovative approach to the study of bilingualism. It explores the nature of major language contact phenomena, especially lexical borrowing, mixed languages, bilingual lexical and grammatical processing and representations, second language acquisition, codeswitching, and interlanguage. It examines the universal principles governing grammatical structures of languages in contact and differentiates the lexical and grammatical features of morphemes as outcomes of language contact. The proposed approach describes and explains some outstanding linguistic aspects of bilingualism with a focus on the mechanisms of the bilingual mind during bilingual processing and production at several levels of abstract lexical structure. Abundant naturally occurring examples support the claim that the languages in contact are never equally activated and that language-specific abstract entries in the bilingual mental lexicon are in contact, resulting in mutual influence during codeswitching, second language learning, and interlanguage development.

Longxing Wei is Professor of Linguistics and teaches theoretical and applied linguistics in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Montclair State University, USA. He received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of South Carolina, USA. He specializes in contact linguistics, bilingualism, second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, semantics, pragmatics, syntax, current theories of second language acquisition, language and culture, stylistics, and research design in applied linguistics. His recent books are Interlanguage: The Abstract Level in Language Acquisition, and The Bilingual Mental Lexicon. He has published widely on interlanguage, codeswitching, bilingualism, second language acquisition, languages in contact, the bilingual mental lexicon, and stylistics.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-0912-0 / 1036409120
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0912-8 / 9781036409128
Zustand	Neuware