| Language Contact Contributor(s): Viereck, Wolfgang (Editor), Rot, Sandor (Author) |
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ISBN: 363144365X ISBN-13: 9783631443651 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $81.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Foreign Language Study | German - Foreign Language Study | Russian |
| Dewey: 306.44 |
| LCCN: 91227280 |
| Series: Bamberger Beitraege Zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft / Bamb |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" (0.90 lbs) 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Areal linguistics is having its -Golden Age-, but its doleful problems as well. Its theory of language contact and linguistic interference is full of controversies which can be resolved only by a thorough analysis of the essentials of language interrelations and the results of their interactions. The monograph is based on a large corpus of linguistic and extralinguistic material collected during the last few decades (including field-work in different countries of Europe, Asia and North America) on the results of language contacts between English, German and other Teutonic languages, between Romance, Slavic and other Indo-European vernaculars, between Uralic, Turkic, Tungusic-Manchurian and Palaeo-Asian, and other languages. An attempt is made to gain an insight into the -mechanism- of language contact, to single out its types and subtypes and to project the -curve- of the dynamism of their linguistic interference (the receptor-language levels' penetrability). Special attention is paid to different varieties of plurilingualism." |