Full Description
Language contact phenomena have been researched throughout the history of the discipline, but the intensity of the research has undoubtedly risen during the last decades due to growing globalization. This peer-reviewed volume presents twelve papers from the Second Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (University of Groningen, June 2009) which deal with a wide range of topics, languages and contact situations. Five of them involve a Finno-Ugric language (Saami-Komi-Russian; Finnic-Baltic; Mordvin-Turkic; Estonian-German; Saami general), two a Slavic language (Slavic-Romance; Slavic general), two Germanic-Romance contact and three situations outside Europe (The Arabic World; Central Asia; South America). Methods range from field research and corpus analysis to historical linguistics, and both synchronic and diachronic approaches are used. The authors are Rogier Blokland and Michael Rießler, Martine Bruil, Louise-Amélie Cougnon, Anissa Daoudi, Santeri Junttila, Janneke Kalsbeek, Folke Müller and Susan Schlotthauer, Johanna Nichols, Pekka Sammallahti, Peter Schrijver, Remco van Pareren, and Willem Vermeer.
Keywords / target groups: General linguistics, Contact linguistics, Finno-Ugric linguistics, Slavic linguistics.
Contents
The editors: Preface
Rogier Blokland and Michael Rießler: Komi-Saami-Russian Contacts on the Kola Peninsula
Martine Bruil: The Emergence of Future Converbs in Imbabura Quichua: Pre-Hispanic Language Contact as a Possible Explanation
Louise-Amélie Cougnon: Tu Te Prends pour the King of the World? Language Contact in Text Messaging Context
Anissa Daoudi: Globalisation, E-Arabic: The Emergence of a New Language at the Litaral and Figurative Levels
Santeri Junttila: A Collection of Forgotten Etymologies: Revisiting the Most Improbable Baltic Loanwords in Finnic
Janneke Kalsbeek: Contact-induced Innovations in Istrian Čakavian Dialects
Folke Müller and Susan Schlotthauer: Estonian and German Verb-Particle Combinations and Argument Restructuring
Johanna Nichols: Forerunners to Globalization: The Eurasian Steppe and Its Periphery
Pekka Sammallahti: From Africa to the Arctic - Expansions, Bottlenecks and Contacts in the Linguistic Prehistory of the Saami
Peter Schrijver: The High German Consonant Shift and Language Contact
Remco van Pareren: Areal Features in the Volga-Kama Region: On Some Non-lexical Turkic Influences in Mordvin
Willem Vermeer: Retrieving Diluted Evidence for Substratal Effects: Some Examples
