Convergence and divergence in language contact situations / edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Juliane House.

Other author Braunmüller, Kurt, 1948-
Other author House, Juliane.
Other author Universität Hamburg. Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
Descriptionviii, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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SeriesHamburg studies on multilingualism, 1571-4934 ; v. 8
Hamburg studies on multilingualism ; v. 8. ^A1248402
Contents Divergence, convergence, contact : challenges for the genealogical classification of languages / Georg Bossong -- Increases in complexity as a result of language contact / Östen Dahl -- Converging genetically related languages : endstation code mixing? / Kurt Braunmüller -- Converging languages, diverging varieties : innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish / Steffen Höder -- Converging verbal phrases in related languages : a case study from Faro-Danish and Danish-German language contact situations / Karoline H. Kühl & Hjalmar P. Petersen -- Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation / Viktor Becher, Juliane House & Svenja Kranich -- On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations / Robert E. Vann -- Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish / Susana Cortés, Conxita Lleó & Ariadna Benet -- Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German, monolingual Spanish, and bilingual German-Spanish children / Javier Arias & Conxita Lleó.
General noteMostly based on the contributions to a symposium held in October 2007 at the Hamburg Research Centre on Multilingualism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
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ISBN9789027219282 (hb : alk. paper)
ISBN9027219281 (hb : alk. paper)
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ISBN9027288828 (eb)

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