Víctor Fernández-Mallat, Allison Shapp, Jennifer Nycz, Jennifer Nycz, Víctor Fernández-Mallat, Laura Torrano-Moreno, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Karen Beaman, Enam Al-Wer, Areej Al-Hawamdeh...
Immigrant Englishes Around the World is a collection that explores the varieties of English that emerge when speakers whose native languages are not English immigrate to an English-speaking country. Immigrant Englishes Ar...More info...
Immigrant Englishes Around the World is a collection that explores the varieties of English that emerge when speakers whose native languages are not English immigrate to an English-speaking country. Immigrant Englishes Ar...More info...
(Pub. Date: 14-Aug-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009249874)
Focusing on the multilingual Caribbean, this book examines ethnographic data and local performances of English to explore how language is constructed in discourse and via media practices. It is ideal reading for scholars of language contact, the soc...More info...
This book explores the development of sociolinguistic competence among adult second language learners, considering productive and interpretive skills. Combining results from a cross-sectional and longitudinal micro-development study, this book offer...More info...
This book is a detailed study of contact-induced change in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Sanandaj, a town in western Iran. Since its foundation in early 17th century, the city has been home to a significant Jewish community. Th...More info...
(Pub. Date: 16-Jun-2025, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110784527)
Creolists acknowledge the critical role of Krio in furthering understanding of the emergence and development of Atlantic creoles. This book examines the development and restructuring of Krio linguistic properties from diachronic and synchronic per...More info...
(Pub. Date: 05-Jun-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108497381)
Despite typological differences, the languages of northern Europe share unusual sound patterns. Using the latest advances in theoretical linguistics, the study of sound change, and language variation, this book offers insights into the development of...More info...
World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions, with different interlocutors, and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal r...More info...
Jeroen Darquennes, Joseph C. Salmons, Wim Vandenbussche
Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]
(Pub. Date: 21-Apr-2025, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110442915)
Die Reihe HANDBÜCHER ZUR SPRACH- UND KOMMUNIKATIONSWISSENSCHAFT erschließt einen Wissensbereich, der sowohl die allgemeine Linguistik und die speziellen, philologisch orientierten Sprachwissenschaften als auch diejenigen Wissenschaftsgebiete umfasst,...More info...
This fascinating study explores male youth language practices in different urban centres in Africa, showing their relation to other urban languages, vernaculars and varieties, and testing and contesting claims of their autonomy and candidacy as natio...More info...
As the first book-length comparison of the history and current status of English and Spanish, this volume reveals parallels and differences in how colonialism, politics, and demographic and social change played out in the evolution of two major world...More info...
The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how...More info...
Bringing together contributions from a global team of scholars, this two-volume Handbook represents the state-of-the-art in the field of language contact. Focusing on multilingualism and population structure, this second volume is essential reading...More info...
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...More info...
Discourse-pragmatic markers are central to everyday language, yet many aspects of their use and functions remain elusive or under-investigated. Bringing together a global team of leading scholars, this volume presents a representative showcase of wor...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-Jan-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474429092)
Exploring the role of multiple forms of contact in determining the history of Spanish. Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerging f...More info...
Exploring the role of multiple forms of contact in determining the history of Spanish. Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerging f...More info...
Víctor Fernández-Mallat, Allison Shapp, Jennifer Nycz, Jennifer Nycz, Víctor Fernández-Mallat, Laura Torrano-Moreno, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Karen Beaman, Enam Al-Wer, Areej Al-Hawamdeh...
Series: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
(Pub. Date: 02-Jan-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Georgetown University Press, ISBN-13: 9781647125011)
New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individualsDialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutually intelligible language varieties interact. Many linguists are interested...More info...
Víctor Fernández-Mallat, Allison Shapp, Jennifer Nycz, Jennifer Nycz, Víctor Fernández-Mallat, Laura Torrano-Moreno, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Karen Beaman, Enam Al-Wer, Areej Al-Hawamdeh...
Series: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individualsDialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutually intelligible language varieties interact. Many linguists are interested...More info...
Language Conflict in Educational Settings: International Perspectives delves into the intriguing intersection of contact linguistics and education, a topic that has been relatively unexplored until now.With contributions from scholars acros...More info...
This book examines Spanish English bilingual patterns in a small town and rural Northeast Georgia community of Hispanics recently immigrated from Mexico and other areas of Latin America. Speech data from naturally-occurring conversations by 56 chi...More info...
Speakers of different languages come into contact; their languages influence each other. This textbook investigates this reality in modern and historical contexts. Each central theme introduces an in-depth, real-world case study, key concepts are cle...More info...
(Pub. Date: 05-Dec-2024, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316512739)
Speakers of different languages come into contact; their languages influence each other. This textbook investigates this reality in modern and historical contexts. Each central theme introduces an in-depth, real-world case study, key concepts are cle...More info...
No time like the present, not even the glorious pioneering decades between 1870 and 1930, has seen such a high number of able and enthusiastic contributors to Syriac studies. Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling ancient and modern vocabularies bring...More info...
This book examines grammatical changes that took place in the medieval language contact situation between English and French from 1066 until 1500. It investigates structural copying phenomena and their connection with the lexicon, finding that cop...More info...
In the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area, where many languages are described as verb-final, ‘Targets’ (Goals, Recipients, etc.) tend to appear in the immediate postverbal position, a pattern violating the alleged ‘basic word order’. Inves...More info...
The book provides an encyclopaedic overview of the language contact between Slavic languages and Romani in Eastern, South-Eastern and East-Central Europe. It is based on Yaron Matras’ pragmatic-functional approach to language contact and follows...More info...
This book explores the linguistic and biological relationship between the Aleuts of coastal southwest Alaska and the Utians of coastal central California. Both groups speak languages diverging in the Middle Holocene Period from a common parent langu...More info...
