Date: 21-May-2008 From: Robert Nicolaï <nicolaieva.mpg.de> Subject: Journal of Language Contact No 2 (2008) E-mail this message to a friend
Publisher: Chaire Dynamique du langage - Institut universitaire de France
Journal Title: Journal of Language Contact
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Issue Number: 2
Issue Date: 2008
Subtitle: Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language / Theory and Implications
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The 2nd THEMA issue of the Journal of Language Contact (JLC) Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language/Theory and Implications
edited / édité by / par Robert Nicolaï & Bernard Comrie has now appeared and can henceforth be downloaded from: http://www.jlc-journal.org/ .
The complete issue as well as each separate article can be accessed under: 'Issues & Articles' // 'Numéros & Articles' --------------------------------------------------------
Table of Contents
JLC general informations
Robert Nicolaï & Bernard Comrie Presentation
Andrée Tabouret-Keller Langues en contact : l’expression contact comme révélatrice de la dynamique des langues. Persistance et intérêt de la métaphore
I. Theoretical Reflexions, Modelings and Syntheses
Carol Myers- Scotton Language Contact: Why Outsider System Morphemes Resist Transfer
Sarah G. Thomason Social and Linguistic Factors as Predictors of Contact-Induced Change
Bernd Heine & Tania Kuteva Constraints on Contact-Induced Linguistic Change
Claire Lefebvre Relabelling: A Major Process in Language Contact
Mauro Tosco What to Do when You are Unhappy with Language Areas but You do not Want to Quit
Donald Winford Processes of Creole Formation and Related Contact-Induced Language Change
II. Empirical Approaches, Applications and Developments
Malcolm Ross A History of Metatypy in the Bel Languages
Anthony P. Grant Contact-Induced Change and the Openness of ‘Closed’ Morphological Systems: Some Cases from Native America
Patrick McConvell Mixed Languages as Outcomes of Code-Switching: Recent Examples from Australia and Their Implications
Carmen Silva-Corvalán The Limits of Convergence in Language Contact
William J. Samarin Convergence and the Retention of Marked Consonants in Sango: the Creation and Appropriation of a Pidgin
Françoise Gadet & Mari C. Jones Variation, Contact and Convergence in French Spoken Outside France
Katja Ploog Subversion of Language Structure in Heterogeneous Speech Communities: the Work of Discourse and the Part of Contact
Zygmunt Frajzyngier & Erin Shay Language-Internal versus Contact-Induced Change: The Split Coding of Person and Number: A Stefan Elders Question
III. Frontier Research
Nicholas J. Enfield Transmission Biases in Linguistic Epidemiology
Robert Nicolaï How languages Change and How They Adapt: Some Challenges for the Future / Dynamique du langage et élaboration des langues : quelques défis à relever
Abstracts
Authors
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Publisher: Robert Nicolaï (Chaire ‘Dynamique du langage et contact des langues’ de l’Institut universitaire de France (nicolaiunice.fr).)
Managing Editor and Webmaster of http://jlc-journal.org: Henning Schreiber (Institut für Afrikanische Sprachwissenschaften of the J.W. Goethe-University
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