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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Introduction
1
11 BOAS VS SAPIR ON FOREIGN INFLUENCE vs GENETIC INHERITANCE
5
12 WHAT GENETIC RELATIONSHIP MEANS
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The Failure of Linguistic Constraints on Interference
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21 TYPOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS
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22 IMPLICATIONAL UNIVERSAL CONSTRAINTS
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23 CONSTRAINTS BASED ON NATURALNESS
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24 CONCLUSION
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74 PIDGIN GENESIS AND CONTACTINDUCED LANGUAGE CHANGE
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75 MONOGENESIS AND THE PROBABILITY OF PIDGINIZATION
194
Retrospection
200
82 COMPARATIVE RECONSTRUCTION AND CONTACTINDUCED LANGUAGE CHANGE
206
83 CONCLUSION
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Case Studies
214
A CASE OF HEAVY BORROWING
215
92 MAA
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ContactInduced Language Change An Analytic Framework
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31 BORROWING VS INTERFERENCE THROUGH SHIFT
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32 PREDICTING EXTENT AND KINDS OF INTERFERENCE
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WHEN IS AN EXTERNAL EXPLANATION APPROPRIATE?
57
Language Maintenance
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EXCLUSIVELY LEXICAL TO SLIGHT STRUCTURAL BORROWING
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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
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Shift without Normal Transmission Abrupt Creolization
147
Pidgins
167
72 PIDGIN GENESIS AS A RESULT OF MUTUAL LINGUISTIC ACCOMMODATION
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DIVERSITY IN PIDGIN STRUCTURES
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93 MICHIF
228
94 MEDNYJ ALEUT
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95 URALIC SUBSTRATUM INTERFERENCE IN SLAVIC AND BALTIC
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96 AFRIKAANS
251
97 CHINOOK JARGON
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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
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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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