Full Description
Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - starts with the emergence of multilingual populations. Multilingualism involving plurilingualism can have various consequences beyond borrowing, interference, and code-mixing and -switching, including the emergence of lingua francas and new language varieties, as well as language endangerment and loss. Bringing together contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the second in a two-volume set - engages the reader with the manifold aspects of multilingualism and provides state-of-the-art research on the impact of population structure on language contact. It begins with an introduction that presents the history of the scholarship on the subject matter. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with multilingualism embedded in specific population structures worldwide as well as their outcomes. It is essential reading for anybody interested in how people behave linguistically in multilingual or multilectal settings.
Contents
List of contributors; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Introduction: 1. Introduction: language contact in population structure Salikoko S. Mufwene and Anna María Escobar; Part I. Multilingualism: 2. Societal Multilingualism John Edwards; 3. Individual bilingualism Annick De Houwer; 4. Codeswitching and translanguaging Jeff MacSwan; 5. Urban contact dialects Heike Wiese; 6. Multilingualism and super-diversity: some historical and contrastive perspectives Salikoko S. Mufwene; 7. Multilingualism and language contact in signing communities David Quinto-Pozos and Robert Adam; 8. Multilingualism in India, Southeast Asia, and China Tej K. Bhatia; 9. Monolingualism vs. multilingualism in Western Europe: language regimes in France, Spain, and the United Kingdom Zsuzsanna Fagyal; Part II. Contact, Emergence, and Language Classification: 10. Perspectives on creole formation Enoch O. Aboh and Michel DeGraff; 11. Non-European pidgins in early European colonial explorations and trade: mobilian jargon and maritime Polynesian pidgin in contrast Emanuel J. Drechsel; 12. Mixed languages Felicity Meakins and Jesse Stewart; 13. Reconstructing the sociolinguistic history of expansion languages in the Americas: a research program Pieter Muysken; 14. On the idiolectal nature of lexical and phonological contact: spaniards, nahuas, and Yoruba in the new world Ricardo Otheguy, Naomi Shin and Daniel Erker; Part III. Lingua Francas: 15. The emergence of lingua Francas Nicholas Ostler; 16. Colonization and the emergence and spread of indigenous lingua francas in Africa, the Americas and Asia Hildo Honório do Couto; Part IV. Language Vitality: 17. Language endangerment, loss, and reclamation today David Bradley; 18. Contact and shift: colonization and urbanization in the Arctic Lenore A. Grenoble; 19. The Indian diaspora: language maintenance and loss Surendra K. Gambhir; 20. Quechua expansion during the Inca and colonial periods César Itier; 21. Indigenous and immigrant languages in the US: language contact, change and survival Mel M. Engman and Kendall A. King; Part V. Contact and Language Structures: 22. Structural outcomes of language contact Yaron Matras; 23. The emergence of Andean Spanish: against the odds Anna María Escobar; 24. Contact between English and Norman in the Channel Islands Mari C. Jones; Author index; Subject index.
