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The Handbook of Language Contact

Raymond Hickey (Edited by), R Hickey (Author)

9781119485025, Wiley

Hardback, published 17 September 2020

800 pages
24.6 x 17.8 x 4.8 cm, 1.52 kg

“This book (in its second edition) brings together a considerable amount of knowledge on the subject of language contact. Inasmuch as topics range from methodological discussions on contacts in prehistoric languages to urban sociolinguistics, the diversity of the methodological approaches and the extent of the phenomena covered are very impressive.” -- Emmanuel Schang, University of Orléans for LINGUIST List 32.2117, June 2021

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies

Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of different languages interact. Accessibly structured into three sections, The Handbook of Language Contact explores the role of contact studies within the field of linguistics, the value of contact studies for language change research, and the relevance of language contact for sociolinguistics. This authoritative volume presents original findings and fresh research directions from an international team of prominent experts. Thirty-seven specially-commissioned chapters cover a broad range of topics and case studies of contact from around the world. 

Now in its second edition, this valuable reference has been extensively updated with new chapters on topics including globalization, language acquisition, creolization, code-switching, and genetic classification. Fresh case studies examine Romance, Indo-European, African, Mayan, and many other languages in both the past and the present. Addressing the major issues in the field of language contact studies, this volume: 

  • Includes a representative sample of individual studies which re-evaluate the role of language contact in the broader context of language and society
  • Offers 23 new chapters written by leading scholars
  • Examines language contact in different societies, including many in Africa and Asia
  • Provides a cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world

The Handbook of Language Contact, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for researchers, scholars, and students involved in language contact, language variation and change, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and language theory.

Notes on Contributors ix

Preface xvii

Language Contact and Linguistic Research 1
Raymond Hickey

Part I – Contact, Contact Studies, and Linguistics 31

1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics 33
Sarah Thomason

2 Contact, Bilingualism, and Diglossia 51
Lotfi Sayahi

3 Language Contact and Change through Child First Language Acquisition 67
Carmel O’Shannessy and Lucinda Davidson

4 Contact and Grammaticalization 93
Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva

5 Contact and Language Convergence 113
Anthony P. Grant

6 Contact and Linguistic Typology 129
Oliver Bond, Helen Sims‐Williams, and Matthew Baerman

7 Contact and Language Shift 149
Raymond Hickey

8 Contact and Lexical Borrowing 169
Philip Durkin

9 Contact and Code‐Switching 181
Penelope Gardner‐Chloros

10 Contact and Mixed Languages 201
Peter Bakker

11 Contact and Sociolinguistic Variation 221
Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Jonathan Kasstan

12 Contact and New Varieties 241
Paul Kerswill

13 Contact in the City 261
Heike Wiese

14 Linguistic Landscapes and Language Contact 281
Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, and Siu‐Lun Lee

Part II – Case Studies of Contact 301

15 Contact and Early Indo‐European in Europe 303
Bridget Drinka

16 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages 323
Paul Roberge

17 Contact in the History of English 345
Robert McColl Millar

18 Contact and the Development of American English 361
Joseph C. Salmons and Thomas Purnell

19 Contact and African Englishes 385
Rajend Mesthrie

20 Contact and Caribbean Creoles 403
Edgar W. Schneider and Raymond Hickey

21 Contact and the Romance Languages 425
John Charles Smith

22 Contact and Spanish in the Pacific 453
Eeva Sippola

23 Contact and Portuguese‐Lexified Creoles 469
Hugo C. Cardoso

24 Contact and the Celtic Languages 489
Joseph F. Eska

25 Contact and the Slavic Languages 501
Lenore A. Grenoble

26 Contact and the Finno‐Ugric Languages 519
Johanna Laakso

27 Language Contact in the Balkans 537
Brian D. Joseph

28 Turkic Language Contacts 551
Lars Johanson, Éva Á. Csató, and Birsel Karakoc

29 Contact and Afroasiatic Languages 571
Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay

30 Contact and North American Languages 593
Marianne Mithun

31 Contact and Mayan Languages 613
Danny Law

32 Contact and South American Languages 625
Lyle Campbell, Thiago Chacon, and John Elliott

33 Contact among African Languages 649
Klaus Beyer

34 Contact and Siberian Languages 669
Brigitte Pakendorf

35 Language Contact: Sino‐Russian 689
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Natalia Gurian, and Sergei Karpenko

36 Language Contact and Australian Languages 717
Jill Vaughan and Debbie Loakes

37 Contact Languages of the Pacific 741
Jeff Siegel

Index 763

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]
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