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. This book goes to press at a timemay 2007when india and pakistan vow to continue their peace process and, at the same time, are testing and mobilizing nuclearcapable ballistic missiles. But thats largely because the situation is nearly unique among the worlds languages, and there is not a welldeveloped terminology or theoretical background to describe it. Each volume starts with an uptodate overview of its field of interest and brings together some 1220 entries on its most pertinent. Encoding transfer events in surinamese javanese in. Prices in represent the retail prices valid in germany unless otherwise indicated. Shana poplack, cm frsc is a distinguished university professor in the linguistics department of the university of ottawa and three time holder of the canada research. We return to this cautionary tale below, and in our fourth case study, on scope calculations.
Issn 09543945 britain, david j 2007 when is a change not a change a case study on the dialect origins of new zealand english. Additionally, these cases also pose difficulty for grammaticalization parameters conceptualized in other ways in that the pronominal paradigm. Jul, 2011 in a chapter aptly subtitled a cautionary tale, shana poplack and stephen levey examine reported cases of contact induced grammatical change and argue that these studies fail to prove either that the change is due to language contact or that there is change at all or both. Sin and disobedience are constantly crouching at our doors genesis 4. Through the analysis of three case studies afrikaans, ossetic, and cappadocian greek and a brief survey of similar developments in other languages, this article investigates the link between the loss of gender and language contact, which appears to be a key factor in the. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. However, meisel 2011 questions the role of bfla in language change regarding parameter settings and this is debated in the commentary that follows his article. And despite the general consensus that grammatical. Put differently, comparison with a native speaker baseline does not suffice to prove transfer, as the native baseline might differ in important ways from its manifestation in the heritage population.
Full text of the oxford handbook of chinese linguistics. Items where subject is p language and literature p philology. Similarly, it is not clear if there is a change in the grammatical degree when the erstwhile french second person plural vous and german third person plural sie are used as a second person singular form. Prices do not include postage and handling if applicable. Fox and darrell tryon a publication of the department of anthropology as part of the comparative austronesian project, research school of pacific studies the australian national university canberra act australia published by anu e press the.
Torres cacoullos and travis highlight that i contactinduced grammatical change is not a matter of course and that ii codeswitching does not promote grammatical change. Emphasising its richness and variety, the book places northern speech and culture in the context of identity, iconography, mental maps, boundaries and marginalisation. Following the initial pronunciation introductions and practice, there are lessons consisting of a text where a small number of phrases and sentences illustrate grammatical points. Prior research on this feature has shown that fronted articulations of s in wsafe serve as a regional and social indicator of the wealthy northern suburbs of johannesburg, and anecdotal evidence suggests that the feature carries a similar meaning in white afrikaans. A case study on the dialect origins of new zealand english. Crosslinguistic structural priming as a mechanism of contact induced language change. We all know the irish tradition of hospitality and generosity, and i am sure the organizers will not. Changes in the look of the book, in the cambridge history of the book in britain, vol. Despite its alleged relative stability, grammatical gender has nevertheless been completely lost in a number of languages.
She is a leading proponent of variation theory, the approach to language science pioneered by william l. Discontinous language spaces sprachinseln \ claudia maria riehl 20. The phenomenon of language contact and its impacts have been discussed very controversially in the current research of the past decades. Oct 09, 2015 put differently, comparison with a native speaker baseline does not suffice to prove transfer, as the native baseline might differ in important ways from its manifestation in the heritage population. Nominal modifiers of head nouns, by douglas biber with jesse egbert, bethany gray, rahel oppliger, and benedikt szmrecsanyi pp. The book is compelling reading for anyone interested in bilingualism and its importance in society. The authors of phrasefinal prepositions in quebec french. Adult l2 learners, according to meisel, can only be agents of parametric change if they provide most or all of the input for the next generations l1 acquisition. This study examines tone variation within yangliu lalo central ngwi, a minority language community in china that is currently shifting to southwestern mandarin. Evidence from papiamentodutch bilinguals in aruba and the netherlands. Contactinduced language change in bilingual language processing. Pdf on jan 1, 2010, shana poplack and others published contactinduced grammatical change.
Linguistic stability in a language space johan taeldeman 21. Current projects 2008 focus on contact induced change in english as a minority language and the role of the school in impeding linguistic change. In this groundbreaking, alternative account of the history of english, northern english takes centre stage for the first time. Torres cacoullos and travis highlight that i contact induced grammatical change is not a matter of course and that ii codeswitching does not promote grammatical change. Dec 17, 2015 a more continuous conception of contactinduced change is needed, one that allows for outcomes of contactinduced change like modern chamorro and zamboangueno, caught between stools, but actually situated in the space stretching between prototypical expressions of contactinduced change, such as creole and bilingual mixed language. Shana poplack, cm frsc is a distinguished university professor in the linguistics department of the university of ottawa and three time holder of the canada research chair tier i in linguistics. Selected papers from the eleventh international conference on english historical linguistics 11 icehl. Karatsareas 2011 nominal morphology grammatical gender. Classification and evolution in biology, linguistics. Crosslinguistic structural priming as a mechanism of contact. Reference guide for varieties of english a dictionary of. Ienglish language the years work in english studies.
I specifically focus on the development of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender distinctions, and the neuterisation of noun inflection. Language and space an international handbook of linguistic variation. Treatments of contactinduced change do not always take the typological makeup of donor and receiving languages into account. An international handbook of linguistic variation vol. The first contribution, variationist versus textlinguistic approaches to grammatical change in english. Based on a comparison of forms and functions of negative tags in the varieties spoken by portuguesespanish bilinguals in a community on the uruguayanbrazilian border with the one spoken by monolinguals in. An international handbook of linguistic variation pp. Yet at the same time there is growing evidence that contact can also produce divergence, originating with larsens idea of neighbour opposition and developed through. The permeability of tag questions in a language contact. Aug 14, 2019 the final chapter summarizes the main findings of this comprehensive study. If this is done, however, then the nature of the contact process at pivotal points in the structure of the donor language and the likelihood of the successful transfer can be better described.
There still is no mutual agreement on the existence, definition and identification of language contact. The claim that israeli is merely ancient hebrew with a bit of contactinduced change is an irresponsible and unscholarly misstatement of. Britain, david j 2008 when is a change not a change. This paper examines the influence of language contact and multilingualism on the. Calameo northern english a social and cultural history. Prices in gbp apply to orders placed in great britain only. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. In a chapter aptly subtitled a cautionary tale, shana poplack and stephen levey examine reported cases of contactinduced grammatical change and argue that these studies fail to prove either that the change is due to language contact or that there is change at all or both. A study of cappadocian greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective. A cautionary tale shana poplack and stephen levey ab 23. In this article, i argue that two function words of mauritian and seychelles creole illustrate instances of code copying johanson 2002 as a result of the different language contact situations to. Items where subject is p language and literature p. Based on a large spanishenglish bilingual corpus, they demonstrate that the two grammars of a bilingual speaker are indeed interconnected.
Handbook of pragmatics highlights hoph the ten volumes of handbook of pragmatics highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. The final chapter summarizes the main findings of this comprehensive study. The claim that israeli is merely ancient hebrew with a bit of contact induced change is an irresponsible and unscholarly misstatement of the situation. We present our findings of a historical change in subject pronoun. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. In yaron matras and jeanette sakel eds, grammatical borrowing in crosslinguistic. David j 1998 a little goes a long way, as far as analysing grammatical variation and change in new zealand english is concerned. Shana poplack was elected a fellow of the royal society of canada in 1998 and won the pierre chauveau medal in 2005. In this dissertation, i investigate a number of interrelated developments affecting the morphosyntax of nouns in cappadocian greek. Written in latinate transcription it is carefully designed to present these elements in a progressive, userfriendly, stepbystep manner. Two types of functional transfer in language contact in. A cautionary tale shana poplack and stephen levey ab.
An international handbook of linguistic variation 1, ed. The austronesians historical and comparative perspectives the austronesians historical and comparative perspectives edited by peter bellwood, james j. An international handbook of linguistic variation 1, 391 419. Abstract treatments of contactinduced change do not always take the typological makeup of donor and receiving languages into account. If this is done, however, then the nature of the contact process at pivotal points in the structure of the donor language and the likelihood of. Following the initial pronunciation introductions and practice, there are lessons consisting of a text where a small number of phrases. Treatments of contact induced change do not always take the typological makeup of donor and receiving languages into account. Abstract treatments of contact induced change do not always take the typological makeup of donor and receiving languages into account. Key topics in linguistic anthropology see other formats.
Loss of grammatical gender and language contact ivan igartua. Free essays, homework help, flashcards, research papers, book reports, term papers, history, science, politics. Abstract endangered tone languages are not often studied within quantitative variationist approaches, but such approaches can provide valuable insights for language description and documentation in the tibetoburman area. Bilingualism in the community by rena torres cacoullos. Abstract in this paper, we utilize negative polarity tag questions in order to assess to what extent discoursepragmatic variables are susceptible to language contact induced changes. Linguistic stability in a language space \ johan taeldeman 21. She was voted faculty professor of the year 1999, named as.
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