Yaron Matras (University of Manchester)

Language Contact

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combining the author's research with an up-to-date introduction to key concepts, this textbook provides a holistic, original theory of contact linguistics. This second edition has been updated to reflect the many recent developments in this rapidly moving field making it an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers in linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 174mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9781108440080
• ISBN-10: 1108440088
• Artikelnr.: 58819358

Autorenporträt

Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester. He is a leading international authority on contact linguistics, language documentation, and the linguistics of Romani, Domari, and Kurdish, and is the founder of the Multilingual Manchester research unit that specialises in research and public engagement on urban multilingualism and language diversity.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. An emerging multilingual repertoire
3. Societal multilingualism
4. Acquiring and maintaining a bilingual repertoire
5. Crossing the boundaries: codeswitching in conversation
6. The replication of linguistic 'matter'
7. Lexical borrowing
8. Grammatical and phonological borrowing
9. Converging structures: pattern replication
10. Contact languages
11. Outlook.