Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts

Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond
Herausgeber: Filppula, Markku; Paulasto, Heli; Klemola, Juhani

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Produktbeschreibung

Non-standard varieties of English all over the world share a striking number of grammatical features which are hard to explain because of the widely differing sociolinguistic and historical backgrounds of these varieties. Contributors to this book discuss two major factors behind the shared features: vernacular universals and contact-induced change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780415992398
• ISBN-10: 0415992397
• Artikelnr.: 25842418

Autorenporträt

Markku Filppula is Professor of English at the University of Joensuu and a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He is the author of The Grammar of Irish English: Language in Hibernian Style (1999), co-author of English and Celtic in Contact (2008), co-editor of The Celtic Roots of English (2002) and Dialects Across Borders (2005). Juhani Klemola is Professor of English at the University of Tampere. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Essex in 1996. He is co-author of English and Celtic in Contact (2008), co-editor of Speech Past and Present: Studies in English Dialectology in Memory of Ossi Ihalainen (1996), The Celtic Roots of English (2002), Dialects Across Borders (2005), and Types of Variation (2006). Heli Paulasto is Researcher in English Language at the University of Joensuu, where she was awarded her PhD in 2006. She is author of Welsh English Syntax: Contact and Variation (2006), co-author of English and Celtic in Contact (2008), and co-editor of The Celtic Roots of English (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: An Overview Markku Filppula,
Juhani Klemola and Heli Paulasto Part I: The Theory of Vernacular
Universals Chapter 1: Cognition and the Linguistic Continuum from
Vernacular to Standard J.K. Chambers Chapter 2: Vernacular Universals and
Angloversals in a Typological Perspective Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd
Kortmann Part II: Consonant Cluster Reduction and Default Singulars:
Prototypical Vernacular Universals? Chapter 3: How Diagnostic are English
Universals? Daniel Schreier Chapter 4: Number Agreement in Existential
Constructions: A Sociolinguistic Study of Eighteenth-Century English
Terttu Nevalainen Chapter 5: There was Universals; then there weren't: A
Comparative Sociolinguistic Perspective on 'Default Singulars' Sali A.
Tagliamonte Part III: Universals and Contact in Varieties of English
Chapter 6: Irish Daughters of Northern British Relatives: Internal and
External Constraints on the System of Relativisation in South Armagh
English (SArE) Karen P. Corrigan Chapter 7 The Case of Bungi: Evidence for
Vernacular Universals Elaine Gold Chapter 8: The Regularisation of the
Hiatus Resolution System in British English - A Contact-Induced 'Vernacular
Universal'? David Britain and Sue Fox Chapter 9: The Interplay of
'Universals' and Contact-Induced Change in the Emergence of New Englishes
Donald Winford Chapter 10: Digging for Roots: Universals and Contact in
Regional Varieties of English Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Heli
Paulasto Part IV: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 11:
Methods and Inferences in the Study of Substrate Influence Terence Odlin
Chapter 12: Some Offspring of Colonial English are Creole Salikoko S.
Mufwene Chapter 13: Vernacular Universals and the Sociolinguistic Typology
of English Dialects Peter Trudgill Chapter 14: Linguistic Universals and
Vernacular Data Peter Siemund Chapter 15: Why Universals VERSUS
Contact-Induced Change? Sarah G. Thomason