TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hickey, Raymond,
TI  - The handbook of language contact
SN  - 9781405175807
AV  - P 130.5  .H191 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chichester, UK
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Languages in contact
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Notes on contributors -- Language contact: reconsideration and reassessment / Raymond Hickey -- Part I. Contact and linguistics: 1. Contact explanations in linguistics / Sarah Thomason -- 2. Genetic classification and language contact / Michael Noonan -- 3. Contact, convergence, and typology / Yaron Matras -- 4. Contact and grammaticalization / Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva -- 5. Language contact and grammatical theory / Karen P. Corrigan -- 6. Computational models and language contact / April McMahon -- Part II. Contact and change: 7. Contact and language shift / Raymond Hickey -- 8. Contact and borrowing / Donald Winford -- 9. Contact and code-switching / Penelope Gardner-Chloros -- 10. Contact and dialectology / David Britain -- 11. Contact and new varieties / Paul Kerswill -- 12. Contact and change: Pidgins and creoles / John Holm -- Part III. Contact and society: 13. Scenarios for language contact / Pieter Muysken -- 14. Ethnic identity and linguistic contact / Carmen Fought -- 15. Contact and sociolinguistic typology / Peter Trudgill -- 16. Contact and language death / Suzanne Romaine -- 17. Fieldwork in contact situations / Claire Bowern -- Part IV. Case studies of contact: 18. Macrofamilies, macroareas, and contact / Johanna Nichols -- 19. Contact and prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest / Theo Vennemann -- 20. Contact and the history of Germanic languages / Paul Roberge -- 21. Contact and the early history of English / Markku Filppula -- 22. Contact and the development of American English / Joseph C. Salmons and Thomas C. Purnell -- 23. Contact Englishes and creoles in the Caribbean / Edgar W. Schneider -- 24. Contact and Asian varieties of English / Umberto Ansaldo -- 25. Contact and African Englishes / Rajend Mesthrie -- 26. Contact and the Celtic languages / Joseph F. Eska -- 27. Spanish and Portuguese in contact / John M. Lipski -- 28. Contact and the development of the Slavic languages / Lenore A. Grenoble -- 29. Contact and the Finno-Ugric languages / Johanna Laakso -- 30. Language contact in the Balkans / Brian D. Joseph -- 31. Contact and the development of Arabic / Kees Versteegh -- 32. Turkic language contacts / Lars Johanson -- 33. Contact and North American languages / Marianne Mithun -- 34. Language contact in Africa, a selected review / G. Tucker Childs -- 35. Contact and Siberian languages / Brigitte Pakendorf -- 36. Language contact in South Asia / Harold F. Schiffman -- 37. Language contact and Chinese / Stephen Matthews -- 38. Contact and indigenous languages in Australia / Patrick McConvell -- 39. Language contact in the New Guinea region / William A. Foley -- 40. Contact languages of the Pacific / Jeff Siegel
N2  -  and language contact in the context of work on language and society. The final section offers a representative cross-section of individual studies which reappraise the role of language contact in their respective contexts;  the value of contact studies for research into language change; The encyclopedia encompasses every area of language contact in a systematic and focused approach, and contains 40 specially commissioned essays by a team of renowned scholars who offer a wide-ranging exploration of the field. It is structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole
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