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Language Contacts

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Throughout history, Slavic spread from a fairly restricted area somewhere around Ukraine, Belorussia, and Eastern Poland out to large parts of Europe, and Russian as the most widespread Slavic language today spans almost half of the Northern hemisphere ...
Danko Sipka, Wayles Browne
exaly   +4 more sources

Language Discourses and Contacts in the Twenty-First-Century Far North—Introduction to the Volume

open access: yesArctic encounters, 2023
With this volume, we invite you on a trip to the Far North of Europe, to Finland and its neighbouring countries Estonia and Sweden, and across the Arctic circle to the Lapland area which stretches from northernmost Scandinavia in the west to northern ...
Maria Frick, Tiina Raisanen
exaly   +2 more sources

Turkic Language Contacts

open access: yes, 2020
Lars Johanson   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Language contacts in modern Judeo-Spanish: Notes on the concessive and concessive conditional clauses [PDF]

open access: yesLingua, 2017
Since the beginning of the Sephardic diaspora in the Ottoman Empire, Judeo-Spanish has been in contact with different languages, both romance and others.
Sandra Schlumpf
exaly   +2 more sources

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
openaire   +3 more sources

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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Contact languages.

2013
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; and a sociolinguistic ...
Matras, Yaron, Bakker, Peter
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Language Contact and Contact Languages

2008
This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives – notably those of language typology, diachronic linguistics, language acquisition and translation ...
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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.
openaire   +2 more sources

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