The Handbook of Language Contact

The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field - ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology - combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages.* An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interact* Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars* Examines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world* Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society* Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics

ISBN 140517580X   Pages 888 ISBN13 9781405175807 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1678 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Published in Chicester Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Series title Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics Format Hardback   Height (mm) 257 Publication date 13 Apr 2010   Width (mm) 187 DEWEY 417.7   Spine width (mm) 52 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate

		Notes on Contributors
		Preface
		Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment by Raymond Hickey		1
Part I		Contact and Linguistics		29
1		Contact Explanations in Linguistics by Sarah Thomason		31
2		Genetic Classification and Language Contact by Michael Noonan		48
3		Contact, Convergence, and Typology by Yaron Matras		66
4		Contact and Grammaticalization by Tania Kuteva		86
5		Language Contact and Grammatical Theory by Karen P. Corrigan		106
6		Computational Models and Language Contact by April McMahon		128
Part II		Contact and Change		149
7		Contact and Language Shift by Raymond Hickey		151
8		Contact and Borrowing by Donald Winford		170
9		Contact and Code-Switching by Penelope Gardner-Chloros		188
10		Contact and Dialectology by David Britain		208
11		Contact and New Varieties by Paul Kerswill		230
12		Contact and Change: Pidgins and Creoles by John Holm		252
Part III		Contact and Society		263
13		Scenarios for Language Contact by Pieter Muysken		265
14		Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact by Carmen Fought		282
15		Contact and Sociolinguistic Typology by Peter Trudgill		299
16		Contact and Language Death by Suzanne Romaine		320
17		Fieldwork in Contact Situations by Claire Bowern		340
Part IV		Case Studies of Contact		359
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"Despite its century-long history, contact linguistics has received unprecedented attention in the past decades, and it is in this context that one must view the publication of "The handbook of contact linguistics" (henceforth HLC), edited by Raymond Hickey for the Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series. While a handbook is essentially a reference work aimed at introducing particular concepts for a given discipline, it is also, by its encompassing nature, an opportunity to capture the current state of that discipline and the directions in which it is moving." (The Linguist, 6 January 2012)

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