The Mixed Language Debate by Yaron Matras
Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness. They combine structures inherited from different parent languages, often resulting in odd and unique splits that present a challenge to theories of contact-induced change as well as genetic classification. This collection of articles is devoted to the theoretical and empirical controversies that surround the study of Mixed Languages. Issues include definitions and prototypes, similarities and differences to other contact languages such as pidgins and creoles, the role of codeswitching in the emergence of Mixed Languages, the role of deliberate and conscious mixing, the question of the existence of a Mixed Language continuum, and the position of Mixed Languages in general models of language change and contact-induced change in particular. An introductory chapter surveys the current study of Mixed Languages.
Contributors include leading historical linguists, contact linguists and typologists, among them Carol Myers-Scotton, Sarah Grey Thomason,William Croft, Thomas Stolz, Maarten Mous, Ad Backus, Evgeniy Golovko, Peter Bakker, Yaron Matras.
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Essentials of Language Documentation
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Syntactic Change Through Text Types
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Locative Inversion in Mandarin Chinese
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Linguistic Approaches to Translation
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Constructional Approaches to Syntactic Structures in German
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Chinese Language(s)
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The Grammar of Genres and Styles
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A Reader in Sociophonetics
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Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World
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New Challenges in Typology
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Adaptive Languages
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Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics
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Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland
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African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology
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Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax
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Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality
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Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
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Aspects of Grammaticalization
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Plurality and Classifiers across Languages in China
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Linguistics Meets Literature
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Language Documentation and Revitalization in Latin American Contexts
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Derivational Networks Across Languages
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The Dialects of Irish
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Diachronic Slavonic Syntax
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Principles of Historical Linguistics
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Multilingualism and Writing Practices in Defining Communities
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The Grammar of Thinking
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Trends in Hindi Linguistics
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Reciprocals and Reflexives
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Transitivity and Valency Alternations
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Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology
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Analogy in Word-formation
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Catching Language
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Visible Variation
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Insubordination
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Dialectology as Dialectic
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Information Structure and Language Change
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Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads
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The Grammaticalization of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality
Yaron Matras, Manchester, Great Britain; Peter Bakker, Aarhus University, Denmark.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783110177763 |
| ISBN 10 | 3110177765 |
| Title | The Mixed Language Debate |
| Author | Yaron Matras |
| Series | Trends In Linguistics Studies And Monographs [Tilsm] Ser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Year published | 2003-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 331 |
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