: Thomas Stolz, Dik Bakker, Rosa Salas Palomo
: Aspects of Language Contact New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110206043
: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]ISSN
: 1
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This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field. In the first part of the volume, the focus is on methodology and theory. The second part of the volume is dedicated to more empirically oriented studies which look into language-contact constellations with a Romance donor language and a non-European recipient language. In this way, this volume provides the reader with new insights on all levels of language-contact related studies.



Thomas Stolz, Universität Bremen, Germany;Dik Bakker, Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Rosa Salas Palomo, Micronesean Language Center, Guam.

Frontmatter1
Contents13
Romancisation worldwide15
Loanword typology: Steps toward a systematic cross-linguistic study of lexical borrowability57
Modelling contact-induced change in grammar77
Loan verbs in a typological perspective103
Why we need dynamic models for sociolinguistics and language contact studies137
Constructivist theory of language contact and the Romancisation of indigenous languages155
Spanish meets Guaraní, Otomí and Quichua: A multilingual confrontation179
French influence on the native languages of Canada and adjacent USA253
Portuguese influence on Kulina301
Creolization and the fate of inflections313
Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages339
Contact-induced changes in Amerindian languages of French Guiana363
A case of weak Romancisation: Italian in East Africa391
Loan word gender: A case of romancisation in Standard German and related enclave varieties413
Backmatter455