Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2013

Contact Languages

A Comprehensive Guide

Edited by: Peter Bakker and Yaron Matras

Volume 6 in the series Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513711

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About this book

This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language descent and linguistic family tree models; and a sociolinguistic perspective, identifying specific social contexts in which contact languages emerge.

Author / Editor information

Yaron Matras, Manchester, UK; Peter Bakker, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Reviews

"This collection forms an exhaustive volume on contact languages in a way that not only thoroughly summarizes and challenges traditional theories and models pertaining to this field of study, but also provides newer approaches to analyzing contact languages, their origins, and methods of classification, and as such, lays the framework for further investigation on contact languages."
Farah Ali in: www.linguistlist.org 08/2017

This is an important book, which should be consulted by all scholars of language contact for the state of art on the study of extraordinary/exceptional results due to intensive and unusual language contacts. Creoles are amog these unusual cases, but they are hardly the only kind; the up-to-the-minute chapters here on pidgins, mixed languages, and multiethnoletics ought now be treated as gold standard references."
John McWorther in: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34/1 (2019), 171-177

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	viii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Pidgins Mikael Parkvall and Peter Bakker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Creole languages Angela Bartens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Mixed Languages Felicity Meakins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Multi-ethnolects: Kebabnorsk, Perkerdansk, Verlan, Kanakensprache, Straattaal, etc. Jacomine Nortier and Margreet Dorleijn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Written language intertwining Lars Johanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Issues in the genetic classification of contact languages April McMahon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Social factors in contact languages Donald Winford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
Languages and geography index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	422
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Language Typologists, Descriptive and Historical Linguists, Sociolinguists.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 441
Illustrations
- Tables: 13
Keywords: Contact Languages; Sociolinguistics

eBook

Published: June 26, 2013
ISBN: 9781614513711

Hardcover

Published: June 18, 2013
ISBN: 9781614514763

Paperback

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9781501512674