The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings: 12 (Studies in Language Variation) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027234922 ISBN 13: 9789027234926

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2013

Synopsis

This volume is at the cross-roads between two research traditions dealing with language change: contact linguistics and language variation and change. It starts out from the notion that linguistic variation is still a little researched area in most contact-induced language change studies. Intending to fill this gap, it offers a rich panorama of case studies and approaches dealing with linguistic variation in contact settings. It concentrates both on monolingual data, tracing variation and contact beneath surface homogeneity, and on bilingual data such as code-switching and other forms of variation, to trace their underlying regularities. It investigates the relationship between variation and change in language contact settings.
The book will be relevant for students and researchers in contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, language variation and change, sociology of language, descriptive linguistics and linguistic typology.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027234922
• ISBN 13: 9789027234926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Léglise Isabelle, Chamoreau Claudine