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Loss And Renewal - Australian Languages Since Colonisation

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 Dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, this volume provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages.
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A Corpus-Driven Approach To Language Contact - Endangered Languages In A Comparative Perspective

by Evangelia Adamou

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 Proposes a corpus-driven approach to language contact based on the study of endangered languages. Drawing on variationist and language contact frameworks, this book presents an analysis of spoken corpora from Europe and Mexico using a combination of criteria.
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Boundaries And Bridges - Language Contact In Multilingual Ecologies

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 Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change.
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Substrate And Adstrate - The Origins Of Spatial Semantics In West African Pidgincreoles

by Micah Corum

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 Provides an analysis on locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures to locatives in their lexifier, substrate, and adstrate languages. This book includes research methods for investigating substrate and adstrate influence in semantics and creole genesis.
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Dynamics Of Contact-Induced Language Change

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 The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic changes appearing in contact settings. The chapters investigate topics such as the role of multilingual speakers, the differences between contact-induced change and change in endangered languages, and the relationship between contact-induced change and internal change.
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Linguistic Simplicity And Complexity - Why Do Languages Undress?

by John H. Mcwhorter

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 In John McWhorterâ€™s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense.
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Linguistic Simplicity And Complexity - Why Do Languages Undress?

by John H. Mcwhorter

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 In John McWhorterâ€™s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense.
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Pseudo-English - Studies On False Anglicisms In Europe

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 Focuses on how English, through false Anglicisms, influences several European languages, including Italian, Spanish, French, German, Danish and Norwegian.
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New Perspectives On Lexical Borrowing - Onomasiological, Methodological And Phraseological Innovations

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 Aims to broaden the focus of existing loanword research, which has mainly been conducted from a systemic and structuralist perspective. This volume includes eight studies that introduce onomasiological, phraseological, and methodological innovations to the study of lexical borrowing.
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Contact Languages - A Comprehensive Guide

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 Approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language descent and linguistic family tree models; and a sociolinguistic perspective, identifying specific social contexts in which contact languages emerge.
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Repertoires And Choices In African Languages

by Anne Storch e Friederike Lüpke

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 Africa is one of the hotspots of linguistic diversity, and most African languages are spoken by multilingual communities. This volume deals with multilingualism as a cultural technique, register variation and the multiplicity of language ideologies, and the dynamics of linguistic change in Africa's minority languages.
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Language Contact In A Postcolonial Setting - The Linguistic And Social Context Of English And Pidgin In Cameroon

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 This volume moves the investigation of World Englishes beyond the processes of indigenization and evolution, focusing on the emergence of native speakers and their role in shaping the norms and standards of postcolonial varieties.
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Origins Of A Creole - The History Of Papiamentu And Its African Ties

by Bart Jacobs

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 This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu, casting new and long-lasting light on the issue.
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Contact Languages - A Comprehensive Guide

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 This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language descent and linguistic family tree models;
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Borrowed Morphology

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 By integrating novel developments in both contact linguistics and morphological theory, this volume pursues the topic of borrowed morphology by recourse to sophisticated theoretical and methodological accounts.
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The Balkan Linguistic Area - Mapping Variation And Contact

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Speakers And Structures In Language Contact - Pluralistic Approaches To Change And Variation

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Contact And Evolution In The History Of Krio

by Malcolm Awadajin Finney

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A Multilingual Development Framework For Young Learners - Early Multi-Competence In South Tyrol

by Barbara Hofer

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Studies In Italian As A Heritage Language

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Language Families In Contact - The Mutual Impact Of Slavic And Romani

by Anna-Maria Sonnemann

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Diaspora Language Contact - The Speech Of Croatian Speakers Abroad

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Between Separation And Symbiosis - South Eastern European Languages And Cultures In Contact

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Multidisciplinary Perspectives On Multilingualism - The Fundamentals

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