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Heritage languages: a language contact approach

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
I dove into this book, very excited at the prospect of having a text for a graduate course on language contact in a variationist sociolinguistic perspective.
N. Nagy
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The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact

, 2020
Every language has been influenced in some way by other languages through contact-induced linguistic change. Potentially any features can be transferred from one language to another if the sociolinguistic and structural circumstances are right.
Oleg, Belyaev
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New Dialect Formation Through Language Contact

, 2020
The situation of sustained contact between Spanish and English in Miami during the past half century provides a rare opportunity to study contact-induced language change in an ecological context in which speakers of the immigrant language (i.e., Spanish)
P. Carter, L. L. Valdez, Nandi Sims
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Language Contact and Contact Languages

2008
1. Introduction. Language contact: Constraints and common paths of contact induced language change (by Siemund, Peter) 2. Part I. Typology 3. Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages (by Comrie, Bernard) 4. Contact-induced word order change without word order change (by Heine, Bernd) 5. Remodeling grammar:
Peter Siemund, Noemi Kintana
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Loss of grammatical gender and language contact

Diachronica, 2019
Despite its alleged relative stability, grammatical gender has nevertheless been completely lost in a number of languages. Through the analysis of three case studies (Afrikaans, Ossetic, and Cappadocian Greek) and a brief survey of similar developments ...
Iván Igartua
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Languages in Contact

2000
The Editors: Introduction. Ronelle ALEXANDER: Tracking Sprachbund Boundaries: Word Order in the Balkans. Peter BAKKER: Convergence Intertwining: An Alternative Way Towards the Genesis of Mixed Languages. David BECK: Bella Coola and North Wakashan: Convergence and Diversity in the Northwest Coast Sprachbund. Liya V. BONDARKO: Language Contacts: Phonetic
Dicky Gilbers, John Nerbonne, J. Schaeken   +2 more
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Language Contact and Endangered Languages

2020
A major reason for language endangerment is intensive contact with another group whose language has gained, or is gaining, greater political, social and economic prestige and advantages. Speakers of an endangered language will gradually lose the capacity to fully communicate in the language, and fully understand it.
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Language Contact and Language Change

Annual Review of Anthropology, 1984
In principle, the study of language contact can be defined open-endedly, dealing with the gamut of linguistic and sociolinguistic components, and ranging from microscopic analysis of recorded speech fragments to the fate of nations. In the present review we are concerned more narrowly with the kinds of language change traditionally dealt with by ...
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Language Contact and Documentation / Contacto lingüístico y documentación

, 2017
The volume is highly relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languages, language contact, documentation and areal typology.
B. Comrie, L. Golluscio
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Polysynthesis and Language Contact

2017
AbstractPolysynthetic languages have been involved in a variety of language contact situations. In cases of occasional contacts, polysynthetic languages have been simplified, both by learners (approximate varieties) and native speakers (foreigner talk).
van der Voort, Hein, Bakker, Peter
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