Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic LinguisticsTen years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change. |
Contents
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The Failure of Linguistic Constraints on Interference | 13 |
21 TYPOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS | 14 |
22 IMPLICATIONAL UNIVERSAL CONSTRAINTS | 20 |
23 CONSTRAINTS BASED ON NATURALNESS | 22 |
24 CONCLUSION | 34 |
74 PIDGIN GENESIS AND CONTACTINDUCED LANGUAGE CHANGE | 191 |
75 MONOGENESIS AND THE PROBABILITY OF PIDGINIZATION | 194 |
Retrospection | 200 |
82 COMPARATIVE RECONSTRUCTION AND CONTACTINDUCED LANGUAGE CHANGE | 206 |
83 CONCLUSION | 211 |
Case Studies | 214 |
A CASE OF HEAVY BORROWING | 215 |
92 MAA | 223 |
ContactInduced Language Change An Analytic Framework | 35 |
31 BORROWING VS INTERFERENCE THROUGH SHIFT | 37 |
32 PREDICTING EXTENT AND KINDS OF INTERFERENCE | 46 |
WHEN IS AN EXTERNAL EXPLANATION APPROPRIATE? | 57 |
Language Maintenance | 65 |
EXCLUSIVELY LEXICAL TO SLIGHT STRUCTURAL BORROWING | 77 |
MODERATE TO HEAVY STRUCTURAL BORROWING | 83 |
REPLACEMENT OF LARGE PORTIONS OF THE INHERITED GRAMMAR | 100 |
Language Shift with Normal Transmission | 110 |
52 SOME LINGUISTIC RESULTS OF SHIFT | 115 |
Shift without Normal Transmission Abrupt Creolization | 147 |
Pidgins | 167 |
72 PIDGIN GENESIS AS A RESULT OF MUTUAL LINGUISTIC ACCOMMODATION | 174 |
DIVERSITY IN PIDGIN STRUCTURES | 181 |
93 MICHIF | 228 |
94 MEDNYJ ALEUT | 233 |
95 URALIC SUBSTRATUM INTERFERENCE IN SLAVIC AND BALTIC | 238 |
96 AFRIKAANS | 251 |
97 CHINOOK JARGON | 256 |
98 ENGLISH AND OTHER COASTAL GERMANIC LANGUAGES OR WHY ENGLISH IS NOT A MIXED LANGUAGE | 263 |
Notes | 343 |
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Page 4 - ... the history of a language is a function of the history of its speakers, and not an independent phenomenon that can be thoroughly studied without reference to the social context in which it is embedded.