Yaron Matras

Language Contact (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Revised edition of a seminal introduction to language contact, providing an overview of the field and its most recent developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108692595
• Artikelnr.: 70911311

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.