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This book brings together papers that discuss social and structural aspects of language contact and language change. Several papers look at the relevance of historical documents to determine the linguistic nature of early contact varieties, while others investigate the specific processes of contact-...
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oapen-20.500.12657-605662024-03-27T14:15:02Z Social and structural aspects of language contact and change Migge, Bettina Gooden, Shelome Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics This book brings together papers that discuss social and structural aspects of language contact and language change. Several papers look at the relevance of historical documents to determine the linguistic nature of early contact varieties, while others investigate the specific processes of contact-induced change that were involved in the emergence and development of these languages. A third set of papers look at how new datasets and greater sensitivity to social issues can help to (re)assess persistent theoretical and empirical questions as well as help to open up new avenues of research. In particular they highlight the heterogeneity of contemporary language practices and attitudes often obscured in sociolinguistic research. The contributions all focus on language variation and change but investigate it from a variety of disciplinary and empirical perspectives and cover a range of linguistic contexts. 2023-01-10T05:32:51Z 2023-01-10T05:32:51Z 2022 book 9783961103478 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60566 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International external_content.pdf Language Science Press Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.6602539 10.5281/zenodo.6602539 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961103478 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Language Science Press Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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This book brings together papers that discuss social and structural aspects of language contact and language change. Several papers look at the relevance of historical documents to determine the linguistic nature of early contact varieties, while others investigate the specific processes of contact-induced change that were involved in the emergence and development of these languages. A third set of papers look at how new datasets and greater sensitivity to social issues can help to (re)assess persistent theoretical and empirical questions as well as help to open up new avenues of research. In particular they highlight the heterogeneity of contemporary language practices and attitudes often obscured in sociolinguistic research. The contributions all focus on language variation and change but investigate it from a variety of disciplinary and empirical perspectives and cover a range of linguistic contexts. |
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