The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
Volume 1: Population Movement and Language Change
Series: Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 27 March 2025
- ISBN 9781009101646
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages784 pages
- Size 244x170x40 mm
- Weight 1325 g
- Language English 640
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Short description:
This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on population movement and language change from a team of international scholars.
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Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - has been pervasive in human history. However, where histories of language contact are comparable, experiences of migrant populations have been only similar, not identical. Given this, how does language contact work? With contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the first in a two-volume set - delves into this question from multiple perspectives and provides state-of-the-art research on population movement and language contact and change. It begins with an overview of how language contact as a research area has evolved since the late 19th century. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with population movement and language contact worldwide. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the dynamics of social interactions in diverse contact settings and how the changing ecologies influence the linguistic outcomes.
'In this two-volume Cambridge handbook, Mufwene and Escobar have assembled four dozen novel studies on linguistic change, as induced or conditioned by migration, language contact, multilingualism and population structure. This hefty new reference work provides an important resource on language change in the living context of human societies.' George van Driem, Chair of Historical Linguistics, University of Bern
Table of Contents:
List of contributors; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Introduction; 1. Language contact: what a rich and intellectually stimulating history since the late 19th century! Salikoko S. Mufwene and Anna Mar&&&237;a Escobar; Part I. Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics: 2. Language contact and historical linguistics Brian D. Joseph; 3. The Chinese expansion and language coexistence in modern China Randy J. LaPolla; 4. Tracing language contact in Africa's past Bonny Sands; 5. Populations in contact: linguistic, archaeological, and genomic evidence for Indo-European diffusion Bridget Drinka; 6. The impact of autochthonous languages on Bantu language variation: a comparative view on southern and central Africa Koen Bostoen and Hilde Gunnink; Part II. Linguistic Areas: 7. The Balkans Victor A. Friedman; 8. The Amazon basin: linguistic areas and language contact Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; 9. Migration and trade as drivers of language spread and contact in indigenous Latin America Thiago Costa Chacon; 10. Language contact in South Asia Hans Henrich Hock; Part III. Language Spread: 11. The geographic and demographic expansion of Malay James T. Collins; 12. Geographic and demographic spread of Swahili Alamin Mazrui; 13. Arabic language contact Jonathan Owens; Part IV. Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages: 14. The emergence and evolution of romance languages in Europe and the Americas John M. Lipski; 15. The expansion and evolution of Portuguese J. Clancy Clements; 16. French and English in contact in North America Robert A. Papen; 17. French in African contact settings C&&&233;cile B. Vigouroux; 18. The geographical and demographic expansion of English Edgar W. Schneider and Sarah Buschfeld; Part V. Language Diasporas: 19. Diasporas: an overview Dirk Hoerder and Henry Yu; 20. Labor migrations: language change in communities and diasporas Dirk Hoerder and Henry Yu; 21. The Korean diaspora Joseph Sung-Yul Park; 22. The Chinese diaspora: language maintenance and loss Sherman Lee; 23. The diachrony of Yiddish and Judaeo-Spanish as contact languages Marie-Christine Bornes Varol and Anne Szulmajster-Celnikier; Author index; Subject index.
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