Language Contact

Table des matières

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.

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Yaron Matras, Yaron (University of Manchester) Matras, Matras Yaron Matras
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108425117
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42511-7
• Pages: 426
• Thème: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Autres langues / Autres littératures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology