Code Copying: The Strength of Languages in Take-over and Carry-over Roles: 38 (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 38) - Hardcover

Johanson, Lars

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004548432 ISBN 13: 9789004548435

Publisher: Brill, 2023

Synopsis

This book presents Lars Johanson’s Code-Copying Model, an integrated framework for the description of contact-induced processes. The model covers all the main contact linguistic issues in their synchronic and diachronic interrelationship. The terminology is kept intuitive and simple to apply. Illustrative examples from a wide range of languages demonstrate the model’s applicability to both spoken and written codes. The fundamental difference between ‘take-over’ copying and ‘carry-over’ copying is given special value. Speakers can take over copies from a secondary code into their own primary code, or alternatively carry over copies from their own primary code into their variety of a secondary code. The results of these two types of copying are significantly different and thus provide insights into historical processes.

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About the Author

Lars Johanson pursued his studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is professor at the University of Mainz, Germany. He has published widely on descriptive and historical linguistics. His book Turkic (2021) presents his pioneering contributions to Turkic linguistics and language typology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004548432
• ISBN 13: 9789004548435
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 166