The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics)

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of investigation in its own right and featuring 26 chapters, this handbook brings together a broad range of approaches to contact linguistics, including: • experimental and observational approaches and formal theories; • a focus on social and cognitive factors that impact the outcome of language contact situations and bilingual language processing; • the emergence of new languages and speech varieties in contact situations, and contact linguistic phenomena in urban speech and linguistic landscapes. With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, the four sections of this text deal with methodological and theoretical approaches, the factors that condition and shape language contact, the impact of language contact on individuals, and language change, repertoires, and formation. This handbook is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in language contact in particular regions of the world, including Anatolia, Eastern Polynesia, the Balkans, Asia, Melanesia, North America, and West Africa. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of figures 9 List of tables 11 List of contributors 12 Introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact 18 Part 1 Methods and theoretical approaches 22 1 Processing multilingual data 24 2 Language contact in the lab 45 3 A variationist perspective on language contact 63 4 The 4-M model: different routes in production for different morphemes 80 5 Theoretical approaches to the grammar of code-switching 105 6 Usage-based approaches 127 Part 2 Processes and dimensions 144 7 Social factors 146 8 Language contact: pragmatic factors 164 9 Cognitive factors of language contact 185 10 Typological factors 202 11 Cross-language contact in the developing grammars of bilingual children 218 12 First language attrition in the twenty-first century: how continued L1 contact in the digital age fuels language attrition theorizing 238 Part 3 Outcomes 252 13 Borrowing 254 14 Code-switching and bilinguals’ grammars 269 15 Convergence 293 16 Creoles and pidgins: why the latter are not the ancestors of the former 317 17 Mixed Languages 342 18 Linguistic landscape and urban multilingualism 366 19 Urban youth speech styles in multilingual settings 383 Part 4 Linguistic areas 400 20 The Balkans 402 21 Anatolia 421 22 Language contact in the Asian region 451 23 Eastern Polynesia 479 24 Linguistic Melanesia 497 25 Language contact in North America 520 26 Language contact in West Africa 545 Index 568 "This handbook provides an overview of the state-of-the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of investigation in its own right and featuring 31 chapters, this handbook: brings together a broad range of approaches to contact linguistics that include historical-typological, sociolinguistic and discourse-based approaches. is divided into four sections that deal with: methodological and theoretical approaches; the factors that condition and shape language contact; the impact of language contact on individuals, and language change, repertoires and formation; and outlines the geographical spread of structural features through language contact combines theory with empirical approaches in each chapter The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact includes original contributions from an international range of renowned scholars as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research and is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area"-- Provided by publisher