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Contact Linguistics - Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes (Hardcover)
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Contact Linguistics - Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes (Hardcover)
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Contact Linguistics is a critical investigation of what happens to
the grammars of languages when bilingual speakers use both their
languages in the same clause. It consolidates earlier insights and
presents the new theoretical and empirical work of a scholar whose
ideas have had a fundamental impact on the field. It also shows
that bilingual data offer a revealing window on the structure of
the language faculty. Carol Myers-Scotton examines the nature of
major contact phenomena, especially lexical borrowing, grammatical
convergence, codeswitching, first language attrition, mixed
languages, and the development of creoles. She argues forcefully
that types of contact phenomena often seen as separate in fact
result from the same processes and can be explained by the same
principles. Her discussion centers around two new models derived
from the Matrix Language Frame model, previously applied only to
codeswitching. One model recognizes four types of morphemes based
on their different patterns of distribution across contact
phenomena; its key hyothesis is that distribution depends on
differential access to the morphemes in the production process. The
other analyzes three levels of abstract lexical structure whose
splitting and recombination across languages in bilingual speech
explains many contact outcomes. This is an important volume, of
unusual relevance for theories of competence and performance and
vital for all those concerned with language contact. Carol
Myers-Scotton is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
at the University of South Carolina. She is a specialist in
language contact phenomena and sociolinguistics and has a special
interest in East and Southern African linguistics. In 1993, she
published two volumes on codeswitching, Social Motivations for
Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa, and Duelling Languages:
Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching (both OUP). She has also
edited a volume of essays on language and literature (OUP 1998) and
published many articles in her areas of interest.
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