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The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars

2015-08-27 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars by : Enoch Oladé Aboh

Download or read book The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars written by Enoch Oladé Aboh. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of language acquisition in a multilingual context explains how hybrid grammars develop and can result in language change.

The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars

2015-08-27 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars by : Enoch Oladé Aboh

Download or read book The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars written by Enoch Oladé Aboh. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this study of creole languages, Enoch Oladé Aboh addresses this question, arguing that language acquisition requires contact between different linguistic sub-systems that feed into the hybrid grammars that learners develop. There is no qualitative difference between a child learning their language in a multilingual environment and a child raised in a monolingual environment. In both situations, children learn to master multiple linguistic sub-systems that are in contact and may be combined to produce new variants. These new variants are part of the inputs for subsequent learners. Contributing to the debate on language acquisition and change, Aboh shows that language learning is always imperfect: learners' motivation is not to replicate the target language faithfully but to develop a system close enough to the target that guarantees successful communication and group membership.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact

2020-07-26 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2020-07-26
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Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact by : Evangelia Adamou

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact written by Evangelia Adamou. This book was released on 2020-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of investigation in its own right and featuring 26 chapters, this handbook brings together a broad range of approaches to contact linguistics, including: experimental and observational approaches and formal theories; a focus on social and cognitive factors that impact the outcome of language contact situations and bilingual language processing; the emergence of new languages and speech varieties in contact situations, and contact linguistic phenomena in urban speech and linguistic landscapes. With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, the four sections of this text deal with methodological and theoretical approaches, the factors that condition and shape language contact, the impact of language contact on individuals, and language change, repertoires and formation. This handbook is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in language contact in particular regions of the world, including Anatolia, Eastern Polynesia, the Balkans, Asia, Melanesia, North America, and West Africa.

The Creole Debate

2018-05-17 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2018-05-17
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Book Synopsis The Creole Debate by : John H. McWhorter

Download or read book The Creole Debate written by John H. McWhorter. This book was released on 2018-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German and Hebrew and Slavic. Here, John H. McWhorter debunks the most widely accepted idea that creoles are created in the same way as 'children', taking characteristics from both 'parent' languages, and its underlying assumption that all historical and biological processes are the same. Instead, the facts support the original, and more interesting, argument that creoles are their own unique entity and are among the world's only genuinely new languages.

Language Contact in Europe

2017-02-16 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2017-02-16
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Book Synopsis Language Contact in Europe by : Bridget Drinka

Download or read book Language Contact in Europe written by Bridget Drinka. This book was released on 2017-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth, it traces the spread of the periphrastic perfect across Europe over the last 2,500 years, illustrating at each stage the micro-responses of speakers and communities to macro-historical pressures. Among the key forces claimed to be responsible for normative innovations in both eastern and western Europe is 'roofing' - the superstratal influence of Greek and Latin on languages under the influence of Greek Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism respectively. The author provides a new interpretation of the notion of 'sprachbund', presenting the model of a three-dimensional stratified convergence zone, and applies this model to her analysis of the have and be perfects within the Charlemagne sprachbund. The book also tackles broader theoretical issues, for example, demonstrating that the perfect tense should not be viewed as a universal category.

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