The routledge handbook of historical linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work. Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas. Language use as an interface between sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic processes in language attrition and language shift. What is central to the explanation, through every twist and turn of the formal intricacies, is the faithful re. The term language contact is somewhat misleading, as it generally refers to an outcome namely the changes wrought upon a language system as the result of its speakers coming into contact with users of another language systemwe may call this contactinduced linguistic change, or cilcrather than to the processes by which this outcome. Contact induced grammaticalization evidence from bilingual acquisition stephen matthews and virginia yip university of hong kong chinese university of hong kong it is widely acknowledged that developments in bilingual individuals parallel, and ultimately underlie, those taking place in the course of contact induced change. She demonstrates that two function words of mauritian and. This distinction has been captured in the two terms contactinduced change and. The problem linguists since the neogrammarians have stressed the need to examinesocial factors in the study oflanguage change. Contactinduced linguistics change or cilc has been a feature of all known. Modelling contact induced language change in angolan.
Pdf a multimodel approach to contactinduced language change. Chamoreau, leglise 2012 dynamics of contactinduced. Jan 20, 2020 language contact is the social and linguistic phenomenon by which speakers of different languages or different dialects of the same language interact with one another, leading to a transfer of linguistic features. Arabic and contactinduced language change is a twoyear project, running from 2017 to 2019. Introduction sustained academic interest in contactinduced language. Theres no file size limit nor even the need to register to use our service. The primary purpose of the articles it presents is to identify different factors in language change. Click the upload files button and select up to 20 pdf files you wish to convert. We show that it is possible to study contact induced language change computationally in a historical variety of a lowresource language, earlymodern frisian, by creating a model using features that were established to be.
How to change language in microsoft word and office. All of these diverse lines of enquiry have become part of. Symposium language contact and the dynamics of language. Diachronic syntax workshop carmel oshannessy, university of michigan what kinds of existing data speak to the question of the roles of adults and children in contactinduced change. The interplay of internal, external and extralinguistic factors contributions to the sociology of language, 86 pp. It is an obvious truism to say that, given the dynamic nature of language, change is ever present. However, there is a core of grammatical and lexical features that are highly stable. Modeling contact induced language change naominagy 1. Naturally, there are other types of contactinduced change that are not results of the borrowing structure from the other language.
Language and dialectcontact thus, contactinduced change, koineization, and so on, alongside l1a, seems quite pervasive in the history of all languages be they labeled creole or not mufwene 2001ff. Language acquisition in creolization and, thus, language. The creole debate, the mixed language debate, the contactinduced change debate and their broader contexts. English as a contact language edited by daniel schreier.
The display and keyboard layout languages used in office for mac are the same as the ones for the operating system. Proceedings of the international symposium on monolingual. Monograph on language change, its dynamics, restrictions, and outcomes. From this perspective, language change is characterized as.
Language contact and language change in the history of the. To know more about how much we care, read our privacy policy. The dynamics of contact induced language change pp. Certain phenomena of interest to linguists mainly occur in lowresource languages, such as contact induced language change.
While all languages change over time, language contact is widely believed to accelerate the pace of language change. Contactinduced changes can roughly be divided into three sorts, in terms of their stability. A multimodel approach to contactinduced language change claudine chamoreau and isabelle leglise this volume deals with some never before described morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. People centre of excellence for the dynamics of language. Contactinduced changes can roughly be divided into three sorts, in terms of. Find link is a tool written by edward betts searching for language change 395 found 512 total alternate case. Understanding how and why language subsystems differ in their evolutionary. This free online pdf to doc converter allows you to save a pdf file as an editable document in microsoft word doc format, ensuring better quality than many other converters. However, there is still little consensus regarding the roles that these factors play or even what the factors are. Revisiting agglutinative noun inflection in cappadocian greek. Uncovering the acoustic vowel space of a previously undescribed language. Old english and norse werent much more different when they came into contact.
Language change is accelerated by language contact, especially by contact. All of these diverse lines of enquiry have become part of the general study of languages in contact. Mixed marriage scenarios adults and children played a strong role. Salient stages in contactinduced grammatical change. In short, our aim is to demonstrate how consideration of the specific dynamics of language interaction within the bilingual mind can inform the prediction and explanation of contactinduced language change.
On isomorphism and formulas of equivalence in language. Here, we will limit ourselves to borrowed structure, which we will refer to as grammatical replication heine and kuteva, 2006. These findings suggest that different subsystems of language have differing dynamics and that careful, nuanced models of language change will be needed to extract deeper signal from the. There is certainly evidence that both children and adults produce linguistic innovations, and contact induced change provides some of the clearest examples. It is led by dr christopher lucas, with hanadi ismail as postdoctoral research assistant, and made possible by a. This is especially the case when contact results in a group of people adopting a new language, a process known as language shift. This is a subtype of contactinduced change, though by far the most common one. In this paper, we construct an agentbased model to formalize the. Modeling contactinduced language change naominagy 1. With just a simple draganddrop, you can convert pdf to word within seconds.
The studies in language change in contact languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Language contact is the social and linguistic phenomenon by which speakers of different languages or different dialects of the same language interact with one another, leading to a transfer of linguistic features. This is important here because typological congruence facilitates contactinduced change. Publications centre of excellence for the dynamics of.
It is now wellknown that bimultilinguals may allow for one of their languages to influence the lexicon andor the grammar of their other lan. These empirically documented and ideologically founded debates allow one to illustrate and to question fundamental points regarding our understanding of the evolution of language and of the dynamics of. Thomason and kaufman 1988 make a point of noting, however, that in situations of borrowing lexical or otherwise the. Grammaticalization of the future marker in palestinian. Pdf the chapter stresses that the development of morphosyntactic. Dynamics in interlinguistics article pdf available in pragmatics 14 january 1991 with 25 reads how we measure reads. Age and contactinduced language change linguistics. You cannot use separate languages for the os and office applications. The interplay of internal, external, and extra linguistic factors, 285309. However, you can specify a different proofing language for office for mac. The purpose of this paper is to study the frequency and use of onomatopoeic and sound. The capacity for language is thus having in place the architecture which enables us to produce and understand language input in context. Pdf a pragmatic perspective on contactinduced language.
This multifaceted volume demonstrates the important role of language contact and dialect contact in the development of english and its many current varieties, providing new insights into questions of who were the agents of change and what were the processes involved. This is the accepted version of the article which is due. Une explication multifactorielle du changement linguistique. We show that it is possible to study contactinduced language change computationally in a historical variety of a lowresource language, earlymodern frisian, by creating a model using features that were established to be. Trudgill 2004 and indeed the contactinduced morphological changes discussed in matras 2007 seem to be predominantly leading to simpler morphology. Contactinduced grammaticalization evidence from bilingual acquisition stephen matthews and virginia yip university of hong kong chinese university of hong kong it is widely acknowledged that developments in bilingual individuals parallel, and ultimately underlie, those taking place in the course of contactinduced change. Having developed in isolation from the rest of the greekspeaking contingent, the cappadocian greek dialects remained unaffected from standardization pressures and exhibited extensive inter and intradialectal variation as well as a number of linguistic.
The present study explores how the dynamics of language contact can bring about language mixing, borrowing, and, eventually, language change, taking into account psycholinguistic processes in the head of the bilingual speaker. These empirically documented and ideologically founded debates allow one to illustrate and to question fundamental points regarding our understanding of. Evidence indicates that the lexicon and morphosyntax of limonese creole lc are being affected due to contact with spanish and standard english. Language contact is a major factor in language change, notes stephan gramley. A pragmatic perspective on contactinduced language change. Pdf language change is accelerated by language contact, especially by contact that occurs when a group of speakers shifts from one language to. However, language change as a concept and as a subject of. Aspects of the diachronic instability of complex morphology. Trudgill 2004 and indeed the contact induced morphological changes discussed in matras 2007 seem to be predominantly leading to simpler morphology. A second issue related to language contact is that contact is often said to lead to simplification, especially when second language acquisition is involved see e.
Naturally, there are other types of contact induced change that are not results of the borrowing structure from the other language. This is a subtype of contact induced change, though by far the most common one. These factors have been an important part of the development of the branch from its origin in the central plains of what is now north china, in the valley of the yellow river, some 6,500 years ago, right up to the present, and are still the main factors in language change today. Dixons 1991a words, dialect merging, is typical of language obsolescence. Arabic and contactinduced language change, linguistics. This paper intends to fill the gap, by describing the occurrences of. Four of the studies deal with morphosyntactic issues while the other three address questions of prosody. Previous investigations of pg have drawn a more or less static, rather than dynamic, picture of this contact variety.
All files will be deleted from our servers forever after one hour. The investigation incorporates formal psycholinguistic tools into the study. A multimodel approach to contact induced language change. It is perhaps a logical assumption that contactinduced language change requires and, all other social factors being equal, is proportional to some degree of contact between speakers of the relevant languages. On isomorphism and formulas of equivalence in language contact. The dynamics of contactinduced language change, publisher. Changes between the lines by doris stolberg overdrive. Pdf contactinduced language change christopher lucas.
An analysis of recent loans into the standard uyghur. New historical perspectives on nondominant speakers as. I have microsoft office word 2007 and windows xp professional. Spanish, the prestige language of the wider community, has not altogether. Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics. Age and contactinduced language change lsa linguistic institute 20.
When the influence goes the other way, and native language structures influence the second language. A multimodel approach to contactinduced language change. It was probably also connected to a widespread perception that, in the words of. Loan phonology and the two transfer types in language contact. Contact is a cause of any linguistic change that would have been less likely to occur outside a particular contact situation thomason 2001. The discussion demonstrates the complex interaction of internal and external factors in language change, and also shows that even if sociohistorical conditions for language contact. A focus on nonnativelike outcomes also ignores the dynamics of language change, across all levels of language, that result from contact of speakers of different languages, e. There is certainly evidence that both children and adults produce linguistic innovations, and contactinduced change provides some of. Chamoreau, leglise 2012 dynamics of contactinduced language change free ebook download as pdf file.
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