English as a Contact Language (Studies in English Language)
Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: nothing but a contact language
2 The role of contact in English syntactic change in the Old and Middle English periods
3 Multilingualism and code-switching as mechanisms of contact-induced lexical change in late Middle English
4 The contact origins of Standard English
5 English as a contact language in the British Isles
6 English as a contact language in Ireland and Scotland
7 The contact dynamics of socioethnic varieties in North America
8 English as a contact language: the “New Englishes”
9 English as a contact language: lesser-known varieties
10 The role of mundane mobility and contact in dialect death and dialect birth
11 The diversification of English: old, new and emerging epicentres
12 Driving forces in English contact linguistics
13 Substrate influence and universals in the emergence of contact Englishes: re-evaluating the evidence
14 Transfer and contact in migrant and multiethnic communities: the conversational historical be + -ing present in South African Indian English
15 English as a contact language: the role of children and adolescents
16 Innovation and contact: the role of adults (and children)
17 Accelerator or inhibitor? On the role of substrate influence in interlanguage development
18 Speculating on the future of English as a contact language
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