Full Description
Convergence, i.e. the increase of inter-systemic similarities, is usually considered the default development in language contact situations. This volume focuses on the other logical possibilities of diachronic development, namely stability and divergence - two well-attested, but under-researched phenomena. The contributions investigate the sociolinguistic and structural factors and mechanisms that lead to or at least reinforce both types of non-convergence, despite of language contact. The contributions cover a wide range of language contact situations, including standard and non-standard varieties.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Braunmuller, Kurt); 2. Part I: Theoretical aspects; 3. Linguistic stability and divergence: An extended perspective on language contact (by Kuhl, Karoline); 4. Convergence vs. divergence from a diasystematic perspective (by Hoder, Steffen); 5. Part II: Empirical studies; 6. Stability and convergence in case marking: Low and High German (by Berg, Kristian); 7. Towards a typological classification of Judeo-Spanish: Analyzing syntax and prosody of Bulgarian judezmo (by Fischer, Susann); 8. Despite or because of intensive contact?: Internal, external and extralinguistic aspects of divergence in modern dialects and ethnolects of Dutch (by Hinskens, Frans L.); 9. Stability in Chinese and Malay heritage languages as a source of divergence (by Aalberse, Suzanne); 10. Does convergence generate stability?: The case of the Cypriot Greek koine (by Tsiplakou, Stavroula); 11. Gender and noun inflection: The fate of 'vulnerable' categories in Northern Norwegian (by Sollid, Hilde); 12. Dialect stability and divergence in southern Spain: Social and personal motivations (by Villena-Ponsoda, Juan A); 13. The Bergen dialect splits in two (by Sandoy, Helge); 14. Diachronic convergence and divergence in differential object marking between Spanish and Portuguese (by Dohla, Hans-Jorg); 15. Person index; 16. Subject index
