The mixed language debate: theoretical and empirical advances
by Bakker, Peter Matras, Yaron
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, similari…
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- Full title :The mixed language debate : theoretical and empirical advances / edited by Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker.
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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 codeswitchin.
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- Publication Date:©2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Mouton de Gruyter
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vi, 325 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:3110197243, 9783110197242, 9783110177763, 3110177765
- oclc:ocn567824933
- LC Classification:PM7802
- Dewey Decimal:417/.22
Table of Contents
The study of mixed languages / Yaron Matras and Peter Bakker -- Social factors and linguistic processes in the emergence of stable mixed languages / Sarah G. Thomason -- Mixed languages and acts of identity / William Croft -- What lies beneath: split (mixed) languages as contact phenomena / Carol Myers-Scotton -- Mixed languages as autonomous systems / Peter Bakker -- Mixed languages: re-examining the structural prototype / Yaron Matras -- Language contact and group identity: the role of "folk" linguistic engineering / Evgeniy V. Golovko -- The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation and its relevance for Ma'á / Maarten Mous -- Can a mixed language be conventionalized alternational codeswitching? / Ad Backus -- Not quite the right mixture / Thomas Stolz.
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