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Dialects in Contact
  • Language: en

Dialects in Contact

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Aspects of Language Contact
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 489

Aspects of Language Contact

This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field. In the first part of the volume, the focus is on methodology and theory. Thomas Stolz defines the study of Romancisation processes as a very promising laboratory for language-contact oriented research and theoretical work based thereon. The reader is informed about the large scale projects on loanword typology in the contribution by Martin Haspelmath and on contact-induced grammatical change conducted by Jeanette Sakel and Yaron Matras. ...