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Beyond Segment Inventories: Phonological Complexity Measures and Suprasegmental Variables in Contact Situations Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Ricardo Napoleão de Souza, Kaius Sinnemäki
This article has three goals. First, it provides a broad cross-linguistic survey of phonological change in contact situations focusing on the suprasegmental domain. The term suprasegmental refers here to syllable structure, stress patterns, tonal patterns, and vowel and nasal harmony systems. Secondly, it assesses phonological change to suprasegmental variables whereby external influence causes an
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Colexification of ‘Enough’, ‘Able’ and ‘Until’ in Tok Pisin and Papapana: Independent or Contact-induced Change? Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Ellen Smith-Dennis
Considerable research has concerned the influence of Papua New Guinea’s Oceanic languages on the development of the pidgin/creole Tok Pisin, but little research has considered linguistic influence in the opposite direction. This paper adds to both bodies of research by investigating whether the colexification of ‘enough’, ‘able’ and ‘until’ in Papapana (Oceanic) and Tok Pisin results from internal
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Kin Term Borrowings in the World’s Languages Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Terhi Honkola, Fiona M. Jordan
The universality of kinship terms means they are regarded, like much basic vocabulary, as resistant to borrowing. Kin term borrowings are documented at varying frequencies, but their role in the dynamics of change in this core social domain is understudied. We investigated the dimensions and the sociolinguistic contexts of kinship borrowings with 50 kinship categories from a global sample of 32 languages
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La prononciation du français au Burundi: influence du français de Belgique et du kirundi Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Gélase Nimbona, Anne Catherine Simon
French in Burundi offers an interesting case of language contact: speakers have Kirundi as their first language and French imported during the colonial era was the variety spoken in Belgium, which does not share all the features of reference French. In this study, we analyze a corpus of 12 speakers (including 4 women; mean age 38.5) producing different speaking styles collected according to the methodology
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A Typological and Diachronic Analysis of Replication: Body-Part Reflexives in Romance-Lexifier Pidgins and Creoles Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Iker Salaberri, Anne C. Wolfsgruber
The fact that body-part reflexives (bpr s) are widespread in Romance-lexifier pidgin, creole and mixed (pcm) languages of the Atlantic area has usually been accounted for in terms of substratum influence from West African languages, in which such reflexives are common. However, this approach does not explain why bpr s are also frequently found in Romance-lexifier pcm languages like Zamboanga Chavacano
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Adapting Methods of Language Documentation To Multilingual Settings Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Jeff Good
Commonly recommended methods for documenting endangered languages are built around the assumption that a given documentary project will focus on a single language rather than a multilingual ecology. This hinders the potential usability of documentary materials for the study of language contact. Research in domains such as ethnography and sociolinguistics has developed conceptual and analytical tools
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Documenting Multilingual Language Practices and the Erasure of Language Boundaries Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Isabelle Léglise
Although we know multilingualism is the norm, most previous work has focused on languages as self-contained entities. Research on language contact mostly assumes bounded languages or repertoires: most studies presuppose contact between stable “communities” and the identifiability of specific languages in bilingual (sometimes plurilingual) corpora. Similarly, language annotation in corpus linguistics
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Documenting Multilingualism and Contact Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Lenore A. Grenoble, Jack B. Martin
In order to understand why languages become endangered, linguists must shift from documenting the last fluent speakers to documenting the larger ecology of language use in an area. The papers in this special issue all address different aspects of documenting language multilingualism. They address three related topics: (1) consideration of the state of multilingualism in endangered language ecologies;
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A Micro-Typology of Contact Effects in Four Tibeto-Burman Languages Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Kristine A. Hildebrandt, Oliver Bond, Dubi Nanda Dhakal
When minority languages with similar typological profiles are in long-term contact with a genealogically unrelated socioeconomically dominant language, the perfect context is provided for investigating which observed contact effects are demonstrably allied to sociolinguistic dynamics rather than purely structural ones. This paper investigates the factors determining the different extent of contact
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Multilingual Language Ideological Assemblages: Language Contact, Documentation and Revitalization Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Paul V. Kroskrity
Data from long-term research in two ideologically divergent Native American linguistic communities demonstrate the importance, first, of indigenous multilingualisms and, second, of distinctive ideologies of multilingualism in shaping the divergent language contact outcomes and practices of those communities as they adapted to such forces as economic incorporation, colonization, assimilationist policies
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Reappraising Survey Tools in the Study of Multilingualism: Lessons From Contexts of Small-Scale Multilingualism Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Pierpaolo Di Carlo
Surveys can allow for the collection of non-speech data in a relatively short time and might benefit field linguists working in contexts of language contact. Existing survey models broadly share a basic structure embodying ways of understanding speakers and contexts of interaction that are ultimately derived from diglossia theory. By attempting a critical analysis of the ideological foundations of
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Contact-Induced Language Change: the Case of Mixtec Adverbial Clauses Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Jesus Olguin Martinez
It is now clear that languages not-genetically related can come to share syntactic structures that were not necessarily borrowed directly in their modern forms. Although it can be challenging to spot these structures, striking similarities in certain patterns and in fine details of usage may shed light on this process. Not only may spotting the patterns be a difficult task, but also establishing the
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Continuity and Change in Modern Nahuatl Word Formation Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Szymon Gruda
The paper presents an analysis of Nahuatl coinages for six artifacts: ‘bicycle,’ ‘car,’ ‘clock,’ ‘key,’ ‘pen,’ and ‘umbrella,’ as attested in interviews with speakers from four communities in Mexico. These artifacts have been selected because of their shared characteristics: the terms for them do not belong to the core vocabulary; they tend to be referred to with Spanish loanwords or with terms created
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Continuity and Change in New Dialect Formation: Tú vs. Usted in New York City Spanish Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Víctor Fernández-Mallat, Michael Newman
This study uses an innovative translation task method to explore second person singular (2ps) address patterns in New York City Spanish (nycs), a new dialect that formed in contact with English and among multiple dialects of Spanish. Results reveal more continuity than disruption in address choice with source varieties of Spanish, unlike some other diasporic language communities that show radical simplification
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The Lesser Antillean Origins of Guianese Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Mikael Parkvall, Bart Jacobs
This paper investigates the origins of Guianese French Creole. Whereas the existing literature assumes Guianese was formed in situ, we argue the creole is in fact genetically related to Lesser Antillean French Creole. We support our hypothesis by means of a range of comparative linguistic data. Furthermore, a historical framework is provided that accounts for linguistic transfer from the Lesser Antilles
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Passing the Test of Split: Israbic-A New Mixed Language Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Afifa Eve Kheir
Israbic is a language variety that is spoken by a majority of the Druze community in Israel and is characterised by a mixture of Israeli Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic. Longitudinal data of Palestinian Arabic/Israeli Hebrew code-switching from the Israeli Druze community collected in 2000, 2017 and 2018 indicate that Israbic went through a gradual process of language mixing. The process started with
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Similarity in Language Transfer – Investigating Transfer of Light Verb Constructions From Dutch to German Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Marie Barking, Ad Backus, Maria Mos
Bilingual speakers of typologically closely related languages tend to frequently experience language transfer, which suggests that similarity between languages is likely to play an important role in the transfer process. In this paper, we explore how three different types of similarity affect transfer of light verb constructions (lvc s), such as take a walk or set an alarm, from Dutch to German by
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Gender Agreement in Correntino Spanish Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Justin Pinta
This article provides qualitative and quantitative analyses of variable gender agreement in Correntino Spanish, the variety of Spanish spoken by both Spanish-Guarani bilinguals and Correntino Spanish monolinguals in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. Drawing on data collected from fieldwork in the province, it will be shown that this variation is conditioned by distance effects and modifier class
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The Gulf of Guinea Proto-Creole and Its Daughter Languages: From Liquid Consonants to Complex Onsets and Vowel Lengthening Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Manuele Bandeira, Gabriel Antunes de Araujo, Thomas Finbow
Four Portuguese-based Creoles are spoken on the islands in the Gulf of Guinea: Santome, Angolar, Lung’Ie, and Fa d’Ambô. These languages are descendants of the Portuguese-based Gulf of Guinea Proto-Creole, which emerged at the beginning of the sixteenth century on São Tomé Island. Based on Bandeira (2017), we discuss the development of liquid consonants in Santome, Lung’Ie, Angolar and Fa d’Ambô using
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A Historical Morphology of Western Karaim: The Two Pluperfect Tenses in Diachronic and Areal Perspective Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Michał Németh
This article is a continuation of the analysis of the Karaim -p edi- past tense presented, for the first time in scholarly literature, in Németh (2015). In the latter paper, this verbal category was described on the basis of a few South-Western Karaim examples, only, and was termed plusquamperfectum ii. In this paper the description of its semantic scope has been refined based on an analysis of recently
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Labialization of Word-Final Nasals in Yucatecan Spanish and Yucatec Maya: Language Contact, Prosodic Prominence Marking, and Local Identity Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Melanie Uth
This paper provides a comparative analysis of word-final nasals in Yucatecan Spanish and Yucatec Maya based on speech data from Quintana Roo (Mexico). In Yucatecan Spanish, a nasal is often pronounced as [m] if placed at the end of a word (e.g., Yucatá[m] instead of Yucatá[n]). Since this phenomenon is widespread on the Yucatán Peninsula, but largely unknown in other Spanish-speaking regions, it is
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Latin and Romance Influence on the Basque Verbal Morphosyntax Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Mikel Martínez-Areta
Basque is the only non-Indo-European language in western Europe. This fact, and particularly its ergative alignment, make its morphosyntactic structure and its verb different from those of Standard Average European. However, the massive and prolonged influence which Basque has received first from Latin and later from Romance has conditioned the layout of the analytic vps (the open type) in a very curious
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Macanese Negation in Comparative Perspective: Typology and Ecology Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Giorgio Francesco Arcodia
Macanese, the near-extinct Portuguese creole of Macao, is an Asian Portuguese Creole language closely related to Malaccan Papia Kristang. In this paper, I argue that a distinctive feature of Macanese vis-à-vis other Asian Portuguese Creoles is its system of negation; specifically, its usage of the negators nunca and nádi. Negators deriving from Portuguese nunca ‘never’ and não há-de ‘shall not’ are
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Vocabulary-Based Classification and Contact-Induced Formation of Neologisms in Two Standard Varieties of Karelian Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Susanna Tavi, Lauri Tavi
This paper investigates the lexical similarities and formation of neologisms of two written standard varieties of Karelian, North and Livvi Karelian, spoken in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Firstly, a naïve Bayes statistical model was generated to classify North and Livvi Karelian newspaper texts automatically. Secondly, the word formation strategies of neologisms from the classified newspaper texts
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Emerging Phonology Under Language Contact: The Case of Sino-Russian Idiolects Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Natalia Gurian, Sergei Karpenko
The main aim of this study is to examine what kind of phonological system emerges because of language contact wherein adult speakers of L1 (Chinese) attempt to speak L2 (Russian) without any previous instruction in L2. The main findings of this study are as follows: a) The speakers of L1 largely adopt the phonetic inventory and phonotactics of L2 and b) the only underlying (distinctive) features in
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Factors Affecting Language Proficiency in Heritage Language: The Case of Young Russian Heritage Speakers in Spain Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Tamara Vorobyeva, Aurora Bel
This study focuses on the issue of language proficiency attainment among young heritage speakers of Russian living in Spain and examines factors that have been claimed to promote heritage language proficiency, namely, age, gender, age of onset to L2, quantity of exposure and family language use. A group of 30 Russian-Spanish-Catalan trilingual children aged 7–11 participated in the study. In order
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Final Vowel Loss in Lower Kasai Bantu (drc) as a Contact-Induced Change Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen
In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative comparative account of Final Vowel Loss (fvl) in the Bantu languages of the Lower Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We argue that this diachronic sound shift rose relatively late in Bantu language history as a contact-induced change and affected adjacent West-Coastal and Central-Western Bantu languages belonging to different
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Numeral Classifiers in Udi: A Unique Contact-Induced Development among Nakh-Daghestanian? Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Timur Maisak
Following study of small-inventory classifier systems in a number of Indo-European, Turkic, Kartvelian and Semitic languages of the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area, the paper presents an account of numeral classifiers in Udi, a Nakh-Daghestanian (Lezgic) language spoken in northern Azerbaijan. Being a peripheral member of the linguistic area in question, Udi possesses an even more reduced version of a
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On the Borrowability of Body Parts Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Kelsie Pattillo
Within recent years, quantitative cross-linguistic research has shown that body parts are one of the least borrowed semantic fields (Tadmor and Haspelmath, ; ; ). With body parts showing many similarities to closed classes, it is simple to assume there is little motivation for a language to borrow body part terms into its lexicon. Yet, despite its lower percentage of borrowings cross-linguistically
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When Language Contact Says Nothing: A Contrastive Analysis of Queísta Structures in Two Varieties of Peninsular Spanish Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 José Luis Blas Arroyo
Based on the existence of some structural conflict between Spanish and Catalan in certain points of the syntax, this study tests the hypothesis about the influence of the latter on the distribution of queísmo uses (‘Me alegro que vengas’ [‘I’m glad you come’]) in the Spanish spoken in an eastern peninsular variety in contact with Catalan. Using the tools of comparative sociolinguistics, and the analysis
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Cecelia Cutler and Unn Røyneland (eds.), 2018. Multilingual Youth Practices in Computer Mediated Communication Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Kathrin Feindt
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Joanna Nolan. The Elusive case of Lingua Franca. Fact and Fiction Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Peter Bakker
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Andrée Tabouret-Keller: la défense du bilinguisme Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Josiane Boutet
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Cecelia Cutler and Unn Røyneland (eds.), 2018. Multilingual Youth Practices in Computer Mediated Communication Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Kathrin Feindt
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Joanna Nolan. The Elusive case of Lingua Franca. Fact and Fiction Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Peter Bakker
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Contact-Induced Complexification in the Gender System of Istro-Romanian Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Michele Loporcaro, Francesco Gardani, Alberto Giudici
The paper provides the first description of the borrowing of Croatian collective numerals into Northern Istro-Romanian and explores the consequences of this borrowing for the morphosyntax of the recipient language. It argues that the collective numerals under examination, which are specified as nominative plural feminine in the Slavic model, took on a different structural specification in the Romance
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Contrasting Romance and Turkish as Source Languages: Evidence from Borrowing Verbs in Modern Greek Dialects Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Angela Ralli
In this paper, I deal with verb borrowing in a language-contact situation involving Greek as target and Romance and Turkish as source languages. More particularly, I discuss the reasons and techniques that make verbs of typologically and genetically different languages to be accommodated in a uniform way within the same linguistic system, and verbs of the same donor to be integrated in a different
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Eastern and Western Romance in the Balkans – the Contrasting but Revealing Positions of the Danubian Romance Languages and Judezmo Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Victor A. Friedman, Brian D. Joseph
The fate of two languages in the Balkans under conditions of language contact is discussed here. These languages, representing different branches of the Romance family, are the Ibero-Romance language Judezmo from the eastern branch and the South Danubian language Aromanian from the western branch. Both have been subject to intense contact with other languages in the Balkans but they show differential
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Establishing Contact: Slavonic Influence on Romanian Morphology? Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Martin Maiden
It is not disputed that Slavonic languages have influenced the inflexional morphology of Romanian and its closely related Daco-Romance varieties. For example, Romanian vocatives in -o, Istro-Romanian perfective verb-roots, and probably the Megleno-Romanian first and second person singular endings -um and -iʃ, are all attributable to Slavonic. These cases generally involve loans of ‘morpheme’-like entities
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In and Around the Balkans: Romance Languages and the Making of Layered Languages Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Francesco Gardani, Michele Loporcaro, Alberto Giudici
The languages of the Balkans are a rich source of data on contact-induced language change. The result of a centuries long process of lexical and structural convergence has been referred to as a ‘sprachbund’. While widely applied, this notion has, however, increasingly been questioned with respect to its usefulness. Addressing the linguistic makeup of the Balkan languages, the notion of sprachbund is
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Italo-Albanian: Balkan Inheritance and Romance Influence Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Walter Breu
This chapter deals with contact-induced change in Italo-Albanian and its effects on the Balkan inheritance of this minority language. The introduction is dedicated to the general characteristics of Albanian and its varieties from a historical, dialectological and geographic perspective, followed by a section on the historical and present situation of the Italo-Albanians. While Section discusses the
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The Negative Imperative in Southern Calabria. Spirito Greco, Materia Romanza Again? Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Adam Ledgeway, Norma Schifano, Giuseppina Silvestri
The aim of this article is to investigate a special case of suppletion in the paradigm of the negative imperative in some dialects of southern Calabria. First, we show how these paradigms involve the extension of an original infinitival desinence to a present indicative verb, giving rise to a hybrid imperatival form (Section ). Second, we claim that this pattern of suppletion does not represent a Romance-internal
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Complex Items and Units in Extra-Sentential Code Switching. Spanish and English in Gibraltar Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Eugenio Goria
As is well-known, code-mixing is particularly frequent at clause boundaries and with elements expressing pragmatic meaning. However, most of the literature has focussed on switching of simple elements such as conjunctions and discourse markers. This paper, in contrast, analyses clause peripheral switching involving two complex constructions: left dislocations and pseudo-clefts. The data are from English-Spanish
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Directional Idioms in English and Welsh: A Usage-Based Perspective on Language Contact Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Kevin J. Rottet
The English verb-particle construction or phrasal verb (pv) has undergone dramatic semantic extensions from the expression of literal motion events (the ball rolled down the hill) – a pattern known as satellite-framing – to idiomatic figurative uses (the company will roll out a new plan) where selection of the particle is motivated by Conceptual Metaphors. Over the course of its long contact with English
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Does Linguistic Similarity Affect Early Simultaneous Bilingual Language Acquisition? Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Anja Gampe, Antje Endesfelder Quick, Moritz M. Daum
It is well established that L2 acquisition is faster when the L2 is more closely related to the learner’s L1. In the current study we investigated whether language similarity has a comparable facilitative effect in early simultaneous bilingual children. The similarity between each bilingual child’s two languages was determined using phonological and typological scales. We compared the vocabulary size
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Emergence of a Bilingual Grammar: Word Order Differences in Monolingual Basque vs. Bilingual Basque-Spanish Predicative Constructions Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Hanna Lantto
This article compares the monolingual Basque predicative constructions with bilingual Basque-Spanish predicative constructions. The speech data for the study were collected in the Greater Bilbao area of the Basque Country between 2005 and 2012. The results suggest that code-switching may trigger the convergence of predicative constructions and have a significant impact on the general word order patterns
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Exploring a Loan Translation and Its Consequences in an Oral Bilingual Corpus Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Barbara E. Bullock, Jacqueline Serigos, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
This work applies computational tools that have been used to model loanwords in newspaper corpora to an analysis of a loan translation in an oral bilingual corpus. The explicit goal of the contribution is to argue that a specific collocation found in a corpus of Spanish spoken in Texas, agarrar+NP (e.g., agarrar ayuda), is a loan translation that is calqued on English get+np support verb constructions
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Lexical Frequency and Frequency of Co-Occurrence Predict the Use of Embedded-Language Islands in Bilingual Speech: Adjective-Modified Nominal Constituents in Russian-German Code-Mixing Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Nikolay Hakimov
This article explores the role of usage frequency in the structure of language mixing by the application of corpus-linguistic and statistical methods. The goal of the study is to reveal that the frequency of a lexical item and the frequency with which it occurs with other items account for its use in bilingual speech. To achieve this goal, I analyze German monolingual and German-Russian mixed adjective-modified
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A Speech Planning Account of Guarani Grammatical Borrowings in Paraguayan Spanish Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Bruno Estigarribia
Previous studies view the use of Guarani grammatical morphemes in Paraguayan Spanish simply as grammatical borrowings (if one focuses on the morphosyntactic status of mixed forms) or as an ill-defined “interference”. But so far there has been no examination of the bilingual planning mechanisms that license and constrain these language mixes. In this paper, I explore the idea that the emergence of grammatical
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Usage-Based Contact Linguistics: Effects of Frequency and Similarity in Language Contact Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Nikolay Hakimov, Ad Backus
The influence of usage frequency, and particularly of linguistic similarity on human linguistic behavior and linguistic change in situations of language contact are well documented in contact linguistics literature. However, a theoretical framework capable of unifying the various explanations, which are usually couched in either structuralist, sociolinguistic, or psycholinguistic parlance, is still
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Grammaticalization of Progressive Aspect in a Slavic Dialect in Albania Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Maxim Makartsev
The article focuses on two markers of progressive aspect that are emerging in a Balkan Slavic dialect in Albania, presumably under Albanian influence. One of them dates back to locative (ǵe ‘where’). Two processes intertwine on the grammaticalisation path of the other (toko): originally an adversative conjunction (‘but’), it was structurally mapped to its polysemic (adversative, but also affirmative
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Phonological Variation and Prosodic Representation: Clitics in Portuguese-Veneto Contact Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Natália Brambatti Guzzo, Guilherme Duarte Garcia
In a variety of Brazilian Portuguese in contact with Veneto, variable vowel reduction in clitic position can be partially accounted for by the phonotactic profile of clitic structures. We show that, when phonotactic profile is controlled for, vowel reduction is statistically more frequent in non-pronominal than in pronominal clitics, which indicates that these clitic types are represented in separate
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The Phonology of Anglicisms in French, German and Czech: A Contrastive Approach Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Tomáš Duběda
In this article, I analyse the phonological adaptation of Anglicisms in three languages (French, German and Czech) from a contrastive perspective. The classification of standard phonological forms, based on a system of eight adaptation principles, aims at capturing the degree of phonological permeability/resistance for each of the languages. Phonological approximation (the substitution of foreign phonemes
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The Relationship of Nigerian English and Nigerian Pidgin in Nigeria: Evidence from Copula Constructions in Ice-Nigeria Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Ogechi Florence Agbo, Ingo Plag
Deuber (2006) investigated variation in spoken Nigerian Pidgin data by educated speakers and found no evidence for a continuum of lects between Nigerian Pidgin and English. Many speakers, however, speak both languages, and both are in close contact with each other, which keeps the question of the nature of their relationship on the agenda. This paper investigates 67 conversations in Nigerian English
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Sociolinguistic Aspects and Language Contact: Evidence from Francoprovençal of Apulia Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Carmela Perta
The aim of this paper is to investigate two Francoprovençal speaking communities in the Italian region of Apulia, Faeto and Celle di St. Vito. Despite the regional neighborhood of the two towns, and their common isolation from other Francoprovençal speaking communities, their sociolinguistic conditions are deeply different. They differ in reference to the functional distribution of the languages of
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Differential Object Marking and Language Contact: An Introduction to this Special Issue Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Alexandru Mardale,Petros Karatsareas
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Basque Differential Object Marking as a Contact-Induced Phenomenon: How and Why? Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez
The debate as to whether syntax can be borrowed has spurred much scholarly inquiry among those who argue that syntax cannot be borrowed () and those in favor of the ‘anything-goes’ argument (Thomason, 2001). In contribution to this debate, this study examines the contact-induced processes behind the variation of Basque Differential Object Marking (dom). We examine the use of Basque dom in the spontaneous
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The Contact Hypothesis Revised: DOM in the South Slavic Periphery Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Eleni Bužarovska
The aim of this paper is to provide an explanation of the emergence of dom in peripheral Macedonian dialects through a reevaluation of the contact hypothesis. The southern and south-western dialects in the contact zones with Greek and Aromanian use a dative-based pattern to mark specific, predominantly human and animate referents. However, the contact hypothesis cannot fully explain the origin of dom