| The Mixed Language Debate: Theoretical and Empirical Advances Contributor(s): Matras, Yaron (Editor), Bakker, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3110177765 ISBN-13: 9783110177763 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $285.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Native American Languages - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation |
| Dewey: 498 |
| LCCN: 2003069087 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.41 lbs) 331 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness. They combine structures inherited from different parent languages, often resulting in odd and unique splits that present a challenge to theories of contact-induced change as well as genetic classification. This collection of articles is devoted to the theoretical and empirical controversies that surround the study of Mixed Languages. Issues include definitions and prototypes, similarities and differences to other contact languages such as pidgins and creoles, the role of codeswitching in the emergence of Mixed Languages, the role of deliberate and conscious mixing, the question of the existence of a Mixed Language continuum, and the position of Mixed Languages in general models of language change and contact-induced change in particular. An introductory chapter surveys the current study of Mixed Languages. Contributors include leading historical linguists, contact linguists and typologists, among them Carol Myers-Scotton, Sarah Grey Thomason, William Croft, Thomas Stolz, Maarten Mous, Ad Backus, Evgeniy Golovko, Peter Bakker, Yaron Matras. |