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9783110177763

The Mixed Language Debate

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    9783110177763

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    3110177765

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-12-01
  • Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

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Summary

Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness. They combine structures inherited from different parent languages,often resulting in odd and unique splits that present a challenge to theories of contact-induced change as well as genetic classification. This collection of articles is devoted to the theoretical and empirical controversies that surround the study of Mixed Languages. Issues include definitions and prototypes, similarities and differences to other contact languages such as pidgins and creoles, the role of codeswitching in the emergence of Mixed Languages, the role of deliberate and conscious mixing, the question of the existence of a Mixed Language continuum, and the position of Mixed Languages in general models of language change and contact-induced changein particular. An introductory chapter surveys the current study of Mixed Languages.Contributors include leading historical linguists, contact linguists and typologists, among them Carol Myers-Scotton, Sarah Grey Thomason,William Croft, Thomas Stolz, Maarten Mous, Ad Backus, Evgeniy Golovko, Peter Bakker, Yaron Matras.

Table of Contents

The study of mixed languagesp. 1
Social factors and linguistic processes in the emergence of stable mixed languagesp. 21
Mixed languages and acts of identity : an evolutionary approachp. 41
What lies beneath : split (mixed) languages as contact phenomenap. 73
Mixed languages as autonomous systemsp. 107
Mixed languages : re-examining the structural prototypep. 151
Language contact and group identity : the role of "folk" linguistic engineeringp. 177
The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation and its relevance for Ma'ap. 209
Can a mixed language be conventionalized alternational codeswitching?p. 237
Not quite the right mixture : Chamorro and Malti as candidates for the status of mixed languagep. 271
Index of subjectsp. 317
Index of authorsp. 319
Index of languages and language groupsp. 323
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