Stability and divergence in language contact : factors and mechanisms
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Stability and divergence in language contact : factors and mechanisms
（Studies in language variation, v. 16）
J. Benjamins, c2014
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Description
Convergence, i.e. the increase of inter-systemic similarities, is usually considered the default development in language contact situations. This volume focuses on the other logical possibilities of diachronic development, namely stability and divergence - two well-attested, but under-researched phenomena. The contributions investigate the sociolinguistic and structural factors and mechanisms that lead to or at least reinforce both types of non-convergence, despite of language contact. The contributions cover a wide range of language contact situations, including standard and non-standard varieties.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (by Braunmuller, Kurt)
- 2. Part I: Theoretical aspects
- 3. Linguistic stability and divergence: An extended perspective on language contact (by Kuhl, Karoline)
- 4. Convergence vs. divergence from a diasystematic perspective (by Hoder, Steffen)
- 5. Part II: Empirical studies
- 6. Stability and convergence in case marking: Low and High German (by Berg, Kristian)
- 7. Towards a typological classification of Judeo-Spanish: Analyzing syntax and prosody of Bulgarian judezmo (by Fischer, Susann)
- 8. Despite or because of intensive contact?: Internal, external and extralinguistic aspects of divergence in modern dialects and ethnolects of Dutch (by Hinskens, Frans L.)
- 9. Stability in Chinese and Malay heritage languages as a source of divergence (by Aalberse, Suzanne)
- 10. Does convergence generate stability?: The case of the Cypriot Greek koine (by Tsiplakou, Stavroula)
- 11. Gender and noun inflection: The fate of 'vulnerable' categories in Northern Norwegian (by Sollid, Hilde)
- 12. Dialect stability and divergence in southern Spain: Social and personal motivations (by Villena-Ponsoda, Juan A)
- 13. The Bergen dialect splits in two (by Sandoy, Helge)
- 14. Diachronic convergence and divergence in differential object marking between Spanish and Portuguese (by Dohla, Hans-Jorg)
- 15. Person index
- 16. Subject index
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