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Thu May 13 2004
Books: Anthropological Linguistics: Matras et al (Eds)
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Message 1: The Mixed Language Debate: Matras, Bakker (Eds)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 07:35:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: julia.ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
Subject: The Mixed Language Debate: Matras, Bakker (Eds)
Title: The Mixed Language Debate
Subtitle: Theoretical and Empirical Advances
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 145
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Editor: Yaron Matras
Editor: Peter Bakker
Hardback: ISBN: 3110177765, Pages: vi, 325, Price: EURO 84.00
Abstract:
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 change in particular. An introductory
chapter surveys the current study of Mixed Languages. Contributors
include leading historical linguists, contact linguists and
typologists.
FROM THE CONTENTS:
The study of Mixed Languages
YARON MATRAS AND PETER BAKKER
Social factors and linguistic processes in the emergence of stable
Mixed languages
SARAH G. THOMASON
Mixed languages and acts of identity: An evolutionary approach
WILLIAM CROFT
Split (mixed) languages as contact phenomena: What lies beneath
CAROL MYERS-SCOTTON
Mixed languages as autonomous systems
PETER BAKKER
Mixed languages: Re-examining the structural prototype
YARON MATRAS
Language contact and group identity: The role of "folk" linguistic
engineering
EVGENIY V. GOLOVKO
The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation and its relevance
for Ma'�
MAARTEN MOUS
Can a mixed language be conventionalized alternational codeswitching?
AD BACKUS
Not quite the right mixture: Chamorro and Malti as candidates for the
status of mixed language
THOMAS STOLZ
Lingfield(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Typology
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)
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