Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes

Author:   Carol Myers-Scotton (, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of South Carolina)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 August 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Carol Myers-Scotton (, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of South Carolina)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780198299530


ISBN 10:   0198299532
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 August 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: The Roots of Language Contact 3: CS Models and New Developments 4: Considering Problematic CS Data and Other Approaches 5: Convergence and Attrition 6: Lexical Borrowing, Mixed (Split) Languages, and Creole Formation 7: Concluding Remarks: The Out of Sight in Contact Linguistics

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As a text it is very readable and its discourse style takes on a very candid and 'dialogue-like' character ... This is a key text of the same importance as Thomason and Kaufman's (1988) seminal work Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics Australian Journal of Linguistics This book will provide an account of contact outcome theories, including the author's own. It will have coursebook potential for advanced undergraduates and graduates. Folia Linguistica This is an important book ... Without doubt, anyone with a serious interest in contact linguistics will read this book with profit. The Times Higher Education Supplement The new book of Myers-Scotton is one of the most important contributions to the study of codeswitching and language contacts that has been published in recent years both because of the width of issues discussed and theoretical depth of treating these issues. Linguist List


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Carol Myers-Scotton is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. She is a specialist in sociolinguistics and language contact phenomena with a special interest in East and Southern African linguistics. In 1993, she published two volumes on codeswitching, Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa, and Duelling Languages: Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching (both OUP). She has also edited a volume of essays on language and literature (OUP 1998) and has published a number of articles in her areas of interest.

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