The genesis of Sri Lanka Malay : a case of extreme language contact
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The genesis of Sri Lanka Malay : a case of extreme language contact
（Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, v. 3）
Brill, 2013
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"This book is a result of the workshop 'Past, Present, and Future of Sri Lanka Malay' held at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig in November 2010."--Acknowledgements
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay: A Case of Extreme Language Contact, the synchrony and diachrony of Sri Lanka Malay are investigated from a variety of angles: Experts on South Asia, South East Asia, Creole Studies, Areal Linguistics, Typology, and Sociolinguistics all contribute their share to a truly global analysis of one of the most extreme cases of language contact, where the Malays changed the whole morphosyntax of their language in as little as just over three centuries.
The genesis of Sri Lanka Malay informs theories of language contact, language change, and 'creolization', as well as sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and a critical analysis of the 'endangered language' discourse.
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Acknowledgements
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PART I
OVERVIEW
1. Introduction
Sebastian Nordhoff
2. Synchronic Grammar of Sri Lanka Malay
Sebastian Nordhoff
PART II
SOCIOLOGY, HISTORY, AND DEMOGRAPHY
3. Sri Lanka Malay: New Findings on Contacts
Peter Bakker
4. Known, Inferable, and Discoverable in Sri Lankan Malay Research
Peter Slomanson
5. Issues of Power and Privilege in the Maintenance of Sri Lanka Malay: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
Romola Rassool
PART III
LANGUAGE CONTACT
6. The Lexical Sources of Sri Lanka Malay Revisited
Scott Paauw
7. Sri Lankan Languages in the South-South Asia Linguistic Area: Sinhala and Sri Lanka Malay
James W. Gair
8. Hijacked Constructions in Second Language Acquisition: Implications for Sri Lanka Malay
Ian Smith
9. The Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Sri Lanka Malay
Mohamed Jaffar
10. The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay as a Multi-Layered Process
Sebastian Nordhoff
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