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Language Contact

2009
Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism, the acquisition of two or more languages from birth, second language acquisition in adulthood ...
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Language contact in heritage languages 
in the Netherlands

2013
This paper discusses heritage languages (HLs) in the Netherlands. First, different types of motivations for the study of heritage languages in general are presented, since the type of motivation for the interest in heritage speakers has a large impact on the type of phenomenon researched.
Suzanne Aalberse, Pieter Muysken
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Language contact

2020
AbstractThe chapter starts with a short history of contact studies related to Africa. It briefly looks at early works from Heine (pidgins in the Bantu area) and the French tradition exemplified in the LACITO series on language contact. Considerable space is given to the developments of the last ten years or so when areal linguistics (Aikhenvald and ...
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Grammaticalization and language contact

2012
AbstractThis article examines the relation between language contact and grammaticalisation. It argues that the notion of contact-driven grammaticalisation represents an attempt to address these questions within the framework of an overall theory of grammaticalisation.
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Language Change And Languages In Contact

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science
The hypothesis of the history of linguistics as a succession of paradigms was more appropriate to linguistic facts and to the continuity of history itself than to a substitution of models. One of the most assiduously maintained principles in historical linguistics was the theory of the regularity of linguistic change.
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Language contact and language change in Amazonia

2003
Abstract Languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the forms they employ to express them. These simi-larities may be due to universal properties—for instance, all languages have clausal negation.
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Languages in Contact

2015
Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together research on multilingualism, code-switching, language endangerment, and globalisation, into a comprehensive overview of world ...
Lisa Lim, Umberto Ansaldo
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Contact Languages

2009
Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar?
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Language Contact

Language contact highlights the social dynamics that are crucial to understanding language change and the emergence of linguistic variation and complexity over time. As an analytic approach and field of linguistic anthropological inquiry, it reminds us that the study of language cannot be separated from an in-depth understanding of the social context ...
Kateryna Iefremenko, Christoph Schroeder
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Language Contact and Contact Languages in Native North America

1997
Abstract As a distinctive culture area of native North America, the Southeast extended from the Atlantic Coast into the Prairies (including the lower Mississippi River valley) and from the Potomac and Ohio Rivers to the. Gulf Coast (including Florida), and was distinguished by a linguistic diversity surpassed only by the Northwest Coast ...
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