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Theories of Language Contact

2020
This chapter depicts major theories of language contact, including those relating to the outcomes of borrowing, creole formation and other bilingual mixtures, with special emphasis on the framework proposed by Frans van Coetsem. This framework is multi-disciplinary in nature, built around linguistic, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic approaches.
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Language Contact in Khmer

2020
This chapter discusses the influence on Khmer, an Austroasiatic language which is the official language of Cambodia, of a range of languages. Some of these are contiguous, such as Thai and Vietnamese. Others have been brought into the Khmerosphere as a result of cultural influence, namely Sanskrit, Pali, arguably Malay, Cham and Mon, and latterly ...
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Harmonious bilingual development: Young families’ well-being in language contact situations

, 2015
Harmonious bilingual development is the experience of well-being in a language contact situation involving young children and their families. While so far no systematic ethnographic studies of harmonious bilingual development exist, the following ...
A. D. Houwer
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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 in Korean

2020
In this chapter the linguistic contacts of Korean are examined from historical, sociocultural, and political perspectives. Contacts with Chinese, Japanese, and English have exerted the most powerful and extensive influences on Korean. Their strongest impact has been on the Korean lexicon due to the presence of extensive cultural borrowings, while ...
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Diglossia and language contact: Language variation and change in North Africa

, 2015
Sayahi Lotfi (2014). Diglossia and language contact: Language variation and change in North Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 251 pp., Hb (9780521119368) £60.00/$95.00.
Abdessattar Mahfoudhi
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Language contact and dying languages

Revue française de linguistique appliquée, 2004
Résumé Cet article s’occupe de la mort des langues dans la perspective du contact et du plurilinguisme. Le travail explore divers aspects de la recherche sur la mort des langues en essayant de délimiter critiquement l’objet d’étude. En particulier, on distingue les langues menacées des autres cas de langues en contact, tel le développement de pidgins ...
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Language Contact in the Balkans

The Handbook of Language Contact, 2020
B. Joseph
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Language Contact In Amazonia

2003
Abstract This book considers how forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another and what the explanation is for this. The author aims (a) to explain and identify the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and (b) to discover the means of distinguishing what ...
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Language Contact in the Sahara

2016
As might be expected from the difficulty of traversing it, the Sahara Desert has been a fairly effective barrier to direct contact between its two edges; trans-Saharan language contact is limited to the borrowing of non-core vocabulary, minimal from south to north and mostly mediated by education from north to south.
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