Contact linguistics : bilingual encounters and grammatical outcomes /

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Author / Creator:Myers-Scotton, Carol.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:xiv, 342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4839780
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ISBN:0198299524
0198299532 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-329) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Symbols and Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • 1.. Introduction
  • 1.1.. Introduction
  • 1.2.. General premises in the theoretical orientation
  • 1.3.. The Matrix Language Frame model and its setting
  • 1.4.. The 4-M model
  • 1.5.. The Abstract Level model
  • 1.6.. Implications for a model of language production
  • 1.7.. How proficiency figures in
  • 1.8.. Competence and performance
  • 1.9.. Summary
  • 1.10.. The coming chapters
  • 2.. The Roots of Language Contact
  • 2.1.. Introduction
  • 2.2.. Factors favoring adding a language
  • 2.3.. Bilingual competence
  • 2.4.. The costs and rewards of bilingualism in the international arena
  • 2.5.. Motivations to become bilingual
  • 2.6.. Bilingualism and language-use patterns
  • 2.7.. Language shift
  • 2.8.. Structural results of bilingualism and language shift
  • 3.. Explaining the Models and Their Uses
  • 3.1.. Introduction
  • 3.2.. Clarifying the MLF model
  • 3.3.. Content vs. system morphemes
  • 3.4.. What the 4-M model adds
  • 3.5.. The MLF model plus the 4-M model: revisiting classic codeswitching
  • 3.6.. The Abstract Level model further explicated
  • 3.7.. Codeswitching and convergence
  • 3.8.. Conclusion
  • 4.. Considering Problematic Codeswitching Data and Other Approaches
  • 4.1.. Introduction
  • 4.2.. Bare forms
  • 4.3.. Nouns and their determiners when Arabic is the Matrix Language
  • 4.4.. Another view: Uniform structure
  • 4.5.. Bare nouns without Bantu noun-class prefixes
  • 4.6.. Explaining other codeswitching phenomena with the Uniform Structure Principle
  • 4.7.. Other lexical categories and system morphemes
  • 4.8.. Another case of bare elements: the 'do' construction
  • 4.9.. About Embedded Language islands
  • 4.10.. Borrowing vs. codeswitching
  • 4.11.. Conclusion
  • 5.. Convergence and Attrition
  • 5.1.. Introduction
  • 5.2.. Convergence areas
  • 5.3.. Individual attrition: a social and psycholinguistic view
  • 5.4.. An overview of attrition studies
  • 5.5.. Supporting my own theoretical assumptions
  • 5.6.. Conclusion
  • 6.. Lexical Borrowing, Split (Mixed) Languages, and Creole Formation
  • 6.1.. Introduction
  • 6.2.. Lexical borrowing
  • 6.3.. Mixed languages > split languages
  • 6.4.. Michif
  • 6.5.. Mednyj Aleut
  • 6.6.. Ma'a (Mbugu)
  • 6.7.. Summary: mixed/split languages
  • 6.8.. Creole formation
  • 6.9.. Conclusion: from lexical borrowing to creole formation
  • 7.. Concluding Remarks: The Out of Sight in Contact Linguistics
  • 7.1.. Concluding remarks
  • 7.2.. Hypotheses for further testing
  • 7.3.. Lexical borrowing and codeswitching
  • 7.4.. Content morphemes
  • 7.5.. Early system morphemes
  • 7.6.. Late system morphemes
  • 7.7.. Multimorphemic elements
  • 7.8.. Insufficient congruence
  • 7.9.. Change in frame requirements
  • 7.10.. Levels of abstract lexical structure
  • 7.11.. Split (mixed) languages
  • 7.12.. Creole formation
  • 7.13.. Conclusion
  • References
  • Substantive Index
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages