Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics

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University of California Press, 15 nov 2023 - 428 páginas
Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change.

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Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for th

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74 PIDGIN GENESIS AND CONTACTINDUCED LANGUAGE CHANGE
191
75 MONOGENESIS AND THE PROBABILITY OF PIDGINIZATION
194
Retrospection
200
82 COMPARATIVE RECONSTRUCTION AND CONTACTINDUCED LANGUAGE CHANGE
206
83 CONCLUSION
211
Case Studies
214
A CASE OF HEAVY BORROWING
215
92 MAA
223

ContactInduced Language Change An Analytic Framework
35
31 BORROWING VS INTERFERENCE THROUGH SHIFT
37
32 PREDICTING EXTENT AND KINDS OF INTERFERENCE
46
WHEN IS AN EXTERNAL EXPLANATION APPROPRIATE?
57
Language Maintenance
65
EXCLUSIVELY LEXICAL TO SLIGHT STRUCTURAL BORROWING
77
MODERATE TO HEAVY STRUCTURAL BORROWING
83
REPLACEMENT OF LARGE PORTIONS OF THE INHERITED GRAMMAR
100
Language Shift with Normal Transmission
110
52 SOME LINGUISTIC RESULTS OF SHIFT
115
Shift without Normal Transmission Abrupt Creolization
147
Pidgins
167
72 PIDGIN GENESIS AS A RESULT OF MUTUAL LINGUISTIC ACCOMMODATION
174
DIVERSITY IN PIDGIN STRUCTURES
181
93 MICHIF
228
94 MEDNYJ ALEUT
233
95 URALIC SUBSTRATUM INTERFERENCE IN SLAVIC AND BALTIC
238
96 AFRIKAANS
251
97 CHINOOK JARGON
256
98 ENGLISH AND OTHER COASTAL GERMANIC LANGUAGES OR WHY ENGLISH IS NOT A MIXED LANGUAGE
263
Notes
343
References
369
References to Middle English Texts
389
Index
391
NAMES OF SCHOLARS
398
SUBJECTS
402
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Página 175 - It also seems to us that they rather design to conceal their language from us than to properly communicate it, except in things which happen in daily trade...
Página 37 - Borrowing is the incorporation of foreign features into a group's native language by Speakers of that language: the native language is maintained but is changed by the addition of the incorporated features.
Página 100 - His vocabulary is small; his inflections are often barbarous; he constructs sentences on a few threadbare models. He may be said to speak no language tolerably. His case is not uncommon among younger men, even when they speak but little English. Perhaps it is due, in some indirect way, to the impact of the conquering language.
Página 100 - Menomini, and that is a strong indictment, for his Menomini is atrocious. His vocabulary is small; his inflections are often barbarous; he constructs sentences of a few threadbare models. He may be said to speak no language tolerably.
Página 35 - [I]t is the sociolinguistic history of the speakers, and not the structure of their language, that is the primary determinant of the linguistic outcome of language contact.
Página 4 - ... the history of a language is a function of the history of its speakers, and not an independent phenomenon that can be thoroughly studied without reference to the social context in which it is embedded.
Página 35 - Both the direction of interference and the extent of interference are socially determined; so, to a considerable degree, are the kinds of features transferred from one language to another.
Página 11 - a claim of genetic relationship entails systematic correspondences in all parts of the language because that is what results from normal transmission: what is transmitted is an entire language
Página 18 - Significantly, in the interference of two grammatical patterns it is ordinarily the one which uses relatively free and invariant morphemes in its paradigm — one might say, the more explicit pattern — which serves as the model for...
Página 350 - Language mixture." ie structural borrowing, is not a monstrosity or an impossibility. It occurs. There is surely much more evidence of it to be recognized and added to the small amount of certain instances that we may now operate with. To be sure, the only really valid evidence is that derived from bilingual situations in which the languages on both sides are well known. It will not do to deal in substrata that have long vanished entirely from our control.

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Sarah Grey Thomason is Professor of Linguistics and Terrence Kaufman is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh.

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