Congruence in contact-induced language change : language families, typological resemblance, and perceived similarity

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Author:

Besters-Dilger, Juliane, editor.

ISBN:

9783110338348

9783110338461

Physical Description:

vii, 410 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Linguae & litterae ; 27

Linguae & litterae ; 27.

Contents:

Contact-induced change between closely related languages -- Contact-induced changes in scenarios with looser family ties -- Typological congruence and perceived similarity -- "Doing being family" : language families and language ideologies.

Subject Term:

Languages in contact.

Language and languages -- Variation.

Typology (Linguistics)

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Besters-Dilger, Juliane,

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Summary

Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects of pre-existing structural congruency between the affected languages at the time of their initial contact, using the Romance and Slavic languages as examples. In contact of this kind, both genetic and typological similarities play a part.