Routledge Handbook of Language Contact

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact</em> 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:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>experimental and observational approaches and formal theories;</li> <p> </p> <li>a focus on social and cognitive factors that impact the outcome of language contact situations and bilingual language processing;</li> <p> </p> <li>the emergence of new languages and speech varieties in contact situations, and contact linguistic phenomena in urban speech and linguistic landscapes. </li> </ul><p>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. </p><p>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. </p> <p>Introduction </p><p>Evangelia Adamou and Yaron Matras </p><p>Part 1. Methods and theoretical approaches </p><p>1) Processing multilingual data</p><p>Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Jacqueline Serigos, and Gualberto A. Guzman </p><p>2) Language contact in the lab</p><p>Paola E. Dussias, Judith F. Kroll, Melinda Fricke, and Michael A. Johns </p><p>3) A variationist perspective on language contact</p><p>Shana Poplack </p><p>4) The 4-M model: different routes in production for different morphemes</p><p>Janice L. Jake and Carol Myers-Scotton </p><p>5) Theoretical approaches to the grammar of codeswitching</p><p>Jeff MacSwan </p><p>6) Usage-based approaches </p><p>Ad Backus </p><p>Part 2. Processes and dimensions </p><p>7) Social factors</p><p>Kofi Yakpo </p><p>8) Language contact: pragmatic factors</p><p>Peter Auer </p><p>9) Cognitive factors of language contact</p><p>Kees de Bot and Lars Bulow </p><p>10) Typological factors</p><p>Felicity Meakins </p><p>11) Cross-language contact in the developing grammars of bilingual children</p><p>Jennifer Austin </p><p>12) First language attrition in the twenty-first century: How continued L1 contact in the digital age fuels language attrition theorizing</p><p>Merel Keijzer </p><p>Part 3. Outcomes </p><p>13) Borrowing </p><p>Yaron Matras and Evangelia Adamou </p><p>14) Codeswitching and bilinguals’ grammars </p><p>Rena Torres Cacoullos and Catherine E. Travis </p><p>15) Convergence </p><p>Björn Wiemer </p><p>16) Creoles and pidgins: why the latter are not the ancestors of the former</p><p>Salikoko S. Mufwene </p><p>17) Mixed Languages</p><p>Carmel O’Shannessy </p><p>18) Linguistic landscape and urban multilingualism</p><p>Carla Bagna, Monica Barni, and Martina Bellinzona </p><p>19) Urban youth speech styles in multilingual settings</p><p>Margreet Dorleijn, Maarten Kossmann, and Jacomine Nortier </p><p>Part 4. Linguistic areas</p><p>20) The Balkans</p><p>Victor A. Friedman </p><p>21) Anatolia</p><p>Anaïd Donabedian and Ioanna Sitaridou </p><p>22) Language contact in the Asian region</p><p>Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim </p><p>23) Eastern Polynesia</p><p>Mary Walworth </p><p>24) Linguistic Melanesia</p><p>Antoinette Schapper </p><p>25) Language contact in North America</p><p>Marianne Mithun </p><p>26) Language contact in West Africa</p><p>Friederike Lüpke and Rachel Watson</p>