Bilingualism in the community : code-switching and grammars in contact
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Bilingualism in the community : code-switching and grammars in contact
Cambridge University Press, 2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-235) and index
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Description
Does the use of two languages by bilinguals inevitably bring about grammatical change? Does switching between languages serve as a catalyst in such change? It is widely held that linguistic code-switching inherently promotes grammatical convergence - languages becoming more similar to each other through contact; evidence for this, however, remains elusive. A model of how to study language contact scientifically, Bilingualism in the Community highlights variation patterns in speech, using a new bilingual corpus of English and Spanish spontaneously produced by the same speakers. Putting forward quantitative diagnostics of grammatical similarity, it shows how bilinguals' two languages differ from each other, aligning with their respective monolingual benchmarks. The authors argue that grammatical change through contact is far from a foregone conclusion in bilingual communities, where speakers are adept at keeping their languages together, yet separate. The book is compelling reading for anyone interested in bilingualism and its importance in society.
Table of Contents
- 1. Language contact through the lens of variation
- 2. The community basis of bilingual phenomena
- 3. Good data: Capturing language use
- 4. Characterizing the bilingual speaker
- 5. Subject pronoun expression: reconsidering the constraints
- 6. Cross-language comparisons: foundations for assessing contact-induced change
- 7. Assessing change and continuity
- 8. The most intimate contact: the bilinguals' two languages
- 9. Code-switching without convergence
- 10. Code-switching and priming
- 11. Bilingualism in its linguistic and social context.
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