1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact
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.
Introduction
Evangelia Adamou and Yaron Matras
Part 1. Methods and theoretical approaches
1) Processing multilingual data
Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Jacqueline Serigos, and Gualberto A. Guzman
2) Language contact in the lab
Paola E. Dussias, Judith F. Kroll, Melinda Fricke, and Michael A. Johns
3) A variationist perspective on language contact
Shana Poplack
4) The 4-M model: different routes in production for different morphemes
Janice L. Jake and Carol Myers-Scotton
5) Theoretical approaches to the grammar of codeswitching
Jeff MacSwan
6) Usage-based approaches
Ad Backus
Part 2. Processes and dimensions
7) Social factors
Kofi Yakpo
8) Language contact: pragmatic factors
Peter Auer
9) Cognitive factors of language contact
Kees de Bot and Lars Bulow
10) Typological factors
Felicity Meakins
11) Cross-language contact in the developing grammars of bilingual children
Jennifer Austin
12) First language attrition in the twenty-first century: How continued L1 contact in the digital age fuels language attrition theorizing
Merel Keijzer
Part 3. Outcomes
13) Borrowing
Yaron Matras and Evangelia Adamou
14) Codeswitching and bilinguals’ grammars
Rena Torres Cacoullos and Catherine E. Travis
15) Convergence
Björn Wiemer
16) Creoles and pidgins: why the latter are not the ancestors of the former
Salikoko S. Mufwene
17) Mixed Languages
Carmel O’Shannessy
18) Linguistic landscape and urban multilingualism
Carla Bagna, Monica Barni, and Martina Bellinzona
19) Urban youth speech styles in multilingual settings
Margreet Dorleijn, Maarten Kossmann, and Jacomine Nortier
Part 4. Linguistic areas
20) The Balkans
Victor A. Friedman
21) Anatolia
Anaïd Donabedian and Ioanna Sitaridou
22) Language contact in the Asian region
Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim
23) Eastern Polynesia
Mary Walworth
24) Linguistic Melanesia
Antoinette Schapper
25) Language contact in North America
Marianne Mithun
26) Language contact in West Africa
Friederike Lüpke and Rachel Watson
Biography
Evangelia Adamou is Senior Researcher at the CNRS (France). She specializes in the analysis of endangered languages with a focus on language contact and bilingualism, combining corpus and experimental methods. Recent publications include: A Corpus-Driven Approach to Language Contact (2016, De Gruyter Mouton) and The Adaptive Bilingual Mind (under contract, Cambridge University Press).
Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester. His research interests include contact linguistics, urban multilingualism, typology, and language documentation. He has worked on dialects of Romani, German, Kurdish, and other languages, and is the founder of the Multilingual Manchester research unit.
