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Informationen zum Autor Raymond Hickey is Professor of Linguistics at Essen University, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English (especially Irish English) and general questions of language contact, shift, and change as well as computer corpus processing. He has published widely, the most recent titles being A Sound Atlas of Irish English (2004), Legacies of Colonial English (2004), Dublin English: Evolution and Change (2005), Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms (2007), and Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change (2010). Klappentext The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field - ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology - combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages.* An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interact* Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars* Examines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world* Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society* Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics Zusammenfassung The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors viii Preface xviii Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment 1 Raymond Hickey Part I Contact and Linguistics 29 1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics 31 Sarah Thomason 2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact 48 Michael Noonan 3 Contact, Convergence, and Typology 66 Yaron Matras 4 Contact and Grammaticalization 86 Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva 5 Language Contact and Grammatical Theory 106 Karen P. Corrigan 6 Computational Models and Language Contact 128 April McMahon Part II Contact and Change 149 7 Contact and Language Shift 151 Raymond Hickey 8 Contact and Borrowing 170 Donald Winford 9 Contact and Code-Switching 188 Penelope Gardner-Chloros 10 Contact and Dialectology 208 David Britain 11 Contact and New Varieties 230 Paul Kerswill 12 Contact and Change: Pidgins and Creoles 252 John Holm Part III Contact and Society 263 13 Scenarios for Language Contact 265 Pieter Muysken 14 Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact 282 Carmen Fought 15 Contact and Sociolinguistic Typology 299 Peter Trudgill 16 Contact and Language Death 320 Suzanne Romaine 17 Fieldwork in Contact Situations 340 Claire Bowern Part IV Case Studies of Contact 359 18 Macrofamilies, Macroareas, and Contact 361 Johanna Nichols 19 Contact and Prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest 380 Theo Vennemann 20 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages 406 Paul Roberge 21 Con...
