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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 10-12-2016
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 11-12-2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2010
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date: 2021
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 15-10-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-03-2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 29-09-2015
Abstract: Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together research on multilingualism, code-switching, language endangerment, and globalisation, into a comprehensive overview of world Englishes and creoles. Illustrated with a wide range of original ex les from typologically erse languages, including Sinitic, Autronesian, Dravidian and other non-Indo-European varieties, the book focuses on structural analyses of Asian ecologies and their relevance for current theories of contact phenomena. Full of new insights, it is essential reading for students and researchers across linguistics, culture and communication.
Publisher: Brill
Date: 14-05-2014
DOI: 10.1163/19552629-00702006
Abstract: This paper discusses the results of scholarship on Sri Lanka Malay based on the studies presented in Nordhoff 2013 in terms of theory, method, and social impact. It touches on a variety of topics including the significance of recent genetic evidence for old theories of language genesis, as well as the efforts for revitalization sparked by the scientific interest in the speech community. In evaluating this collection of variable significance, the author reflects on the transition of ownership of Sri Lanka Malay: from object of scientific curiosity to ancestral language of communal value.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 10-12-2021
DOI: 10.1075/LE.17003.SZE
Abstract: This paper reviews a number of specific features typical of analytic languages, in an attempt to investigate whether Creole languages can indeed be grouped, at least structurally, with other languages of the analytic (or isolating) type. Based on Sybesma et al. (forthcoming) , a study of the nature of analyticity, we select eight features which constitute rather obvious structural parallels between two unrelated groups, namely Sinitic and Kwa. In terms of Creole languages, these eight features can be also clearly located within the APiCS ( Michaelis et al. 2013 ). Contrary to works like Bakker et al. (2011) which argue for the existence of a “Creole Prototype”, our results show that Creole languages do not cluster with each other against other non-Creole languages. Instead, various Creoles clearly owe their grammatical profile to the languages that dominate the typological environment in which they are formed.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 15-10-2009
Abstract: Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar? Through the study of Malay contact varieties such as Baba Malay, Cocos Malay and Sri Lanka Malay, as well as the Asian Portuguese vernacular of Macau, and China Coast Pidgin, this book explores the social and structural dynamics that underlie the fascinating phenomenon of the creation of new, or restructured, grammars. It emphasizes the importance and interplay of historical documentation, socio-cultural observation and linguistic analysis in the study of contact languages, offering an evolutionary framework for the study of contact language formation - including pidgins and Creoles - in which historical, socio-cultural and typological observations come together.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 11-2012
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199922765.001.0001
Abstract: This handbook takes stock of recent advances in the history of English, the most studied language in the field of diachronic linguistics. Not only does le and invaluable data exist due to English’s status as a global language, but the availability of large electronic corpora has also allowed historical linguists to analyze more of this data than ever before, and to rethink standard assumptions about language history and the methods and approaches to its study. In 68 chapters from specialists whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics, this handbook presents the field in an innovative way, setting a new standard of cross-theoretical collaboration, and rethinking the evidence of language change in English over the centuries. It considers issues of the development of Englishes, including creole and pidgin varieties. It presents various approaches from language contact and typology and rethinks the categorization of language, including interfaces with information structure. The book highlights the recent and ongoing developments of Englishes in Africa, Asia, and Australia, and celebrates the vitality of language change over time, in various contexts, cultures, and societies, and through many different processes.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2010
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 09-09-2008
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1075/BCT.25.01ANS
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 17-07-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2017
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 04-03-2010
Abstract: In this paper we revisit some long-standing questions regarding the origins and structure of China Coast Pidgin (CCP), also known as Chinese Pidgin English. We first review the historical context of the China Trade which formed the ecology for the development of CCP. We then review the available sources, focusing on newly transcribed data from Chinese-language instructional materials. These sources provide fresh evidence for grammatical structure in CCP, and demonstrate strong influence from Cantonese as the major substrate language. Comparison with English-language sources shows systematic contrasts which point to likely variation between Anglophone and Sinophone lects, as in the case of wh-questions which show regular wh-fronting in English sources and pervasive use of wh-in-situ in Chinese sources. This conclusion helps to resolve the debate over the Sinitic features of CCP.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 11-06-2009
Abstract: This paper looks at the emergence of Asian English varieties in terms of the evolution of new grammatical features. I propose that, in order to reach a thorough understanding of how the unique combination of grammatical features that define specific Asian Englishes come about, we must approach these features from a typological and evolutionary perspective which allows us to contrast them not only with Standard English varieties but also with the Asian languages with which these come into contact. As restructured vernaculars, Asian English varieties are de facto contact languages, and, as such, evolve as a consequence of selection of features from a multilingual pool. In this pool, features of Asian varieties play a significant role in determining the output grammar and must therefore be appreciated in their own right. In order to illustrate these points, I introduce an evolutionary view of contact language formation, and I present a set of features typical of Singlish, which are all instances of replication of Asian, not English, features
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2004
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 28-08-2018
Abstract: This study explores the range and ersity of the typological features of Mandarin, the largest dialect group within the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan family. Feeding the typological data of 42 Sinitic varieties into the phylogenetic program NeighborNet, we obtained network diagrams suggesting a north-south ide in the Mandarin dialect group, where dialects within the Amdo Sprachbund cluster at one end and those in the Far Southern area cluster at the other end, highlighting the impact of language contact on the typological profiles of various Mandarin dialects.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2000
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2002
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2015
DOI: 10.1111/JOSL.12114
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 10-06-2016
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
Date: 31-12-2009
DOI: 10.5334/JPL.115
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-11-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-11-2020
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 14-01-2010
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 06-04-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2010
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 04-03-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 03-11-2016
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199591435.001.0001
Abstract: This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood and examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the phenomena involved. Following an opening section that provides an introduction and historical background to the topic, the volume is ided into five parts. Parts 1 and 2 present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the languages of the world, covering the semantics and the expression of different subtypes of modality and mood respectively. The authors also examine the interaction of modality and mood, mutually and with other semantic categories such as aspect, time, negation, and evidentiality. In Part 3, authors discuss the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood: diachrony, areality, first language acquisition, and sign language. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches: formal syntax, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, and formal semantics.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 03-2010
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 17-01-2001
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