LINGUIST List 32.2571
Fri Aug 06 2021
Books: Constructions in Contact 2: Boas, Höder (eds.)
Editor for this issue: Billy Dickson <billydlinguistlist.org>
Date: 31-Jul-2021
From: Karin Plijnaar <karin.plijnaar
benjamins.nl>
Subject: Constructions in Contact 2: Boas, Höder (eds.)
E-mail this message to a friend Title: Constructions in Contact 2
Subtitle: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language
acquisition
Series Title: Constructional Approaches to Language 30
Published: 2021
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL:
https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.30 Editor: Hans C. Boas
Editor: Steffen Höder
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027259974 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027259974 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027259974 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027208620 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027208620 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027208620 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Abstract:
The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume "Constructions in Contact" (2018) and extends its methodology and insights in three major ways. First, it presents new constructional research on a wide range of language contact scenarios including Afrikaans, American Sign Language, English, French, Malayalam, Norwegian, Spanish, Welsh, as well as contact scenarios that involve typologically different languages. Second, it also addresses other types of scenarios that do not fall into the classic language contact category, such as multilingual practices and language acquisition as emerging multilingualism. Third, it aims to integrate constructionist views on language contact and multilingualism with other approaches that focus on structural, social, and cognitive aspects. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar is a framework particularly well suited for analyzing a wide variety of language contact phenomena from a usage-based perspective.
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Written In: English (eng)
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