Convergence and divergence in language contact situations / edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Juliane House
- Published:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2009]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2009
- Physical Description:
- viii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Braunmüller, Kurt, 1948-, House, Juliane, and Universität Hamburg. Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit
- Series:
- Contents:
- Introduction / Kurt Braunmuller and Juliane House -- Pt. I. Challenges to accepted views of convergence and divergence in language contact situations -- Divergence, convergence, contact: Challenges for the genealogical classification of languages / Georg Bossong -- Increases in complexity as a result of language contact / Osten Dahl -- Converging genetically related languages: Endstation code mixing? / Kurt Braunmuller -- Pt. II. Convergence and divergence in different varieties in oral and written discourse -- Converging languages, diverging varieties: Innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish / Steffen Hoder -- Converging verbal phrases in related languages: A case study from Faro-Danish and Danish-German language contact situations / Karoline H. Kuhl and Hjalmar P. Petersen -- Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation / Viktor Becher, Juliane House and Svenja Kranich -- On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations / Robert E. Vann -- Pt. III. Phonological processes of variation and change in bilingual individuals -- Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish / Susana Cortes, Conxita Lleo and Ariadna Benet -- Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German, monolingual Spanish and bilingual German-Spanish children / Javier Arias and Conxita Lleo.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9789027219282 (hb : alk. paper)
9027219281 (hb : alk. paper)
9789027288820 (eb)
9027288828 (eb) - Note:
- Mostly based on the contributions to a symposium held in October 2007 at the Hamburg Research Centre on Multilingualism.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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