Linguistic Dimensions of Language Contact

Language contact and language change – linguistic and social issues

Language Contact: Peaceful Coexistence or Emergence of a Contact Language

This paper presents a simple model of linguistic priming between languages in contact, based on the utterance selection model (USM) for language change of Baxter et al. (2006). It will be shown that the emergence or the non-emergence of a new contact language depends on the way potentially bilingual agents choose a language to communicate.

Integrating Linguistic Dimensions: The Scope of Adverbs

Three distinctions seem relevant for the scope properties of adverbs: their function (adjuncts or complements), their prosody (incidental or integrated) and their lexical semantics (parenthetical or non parenthetical). We propose an analysis in which the scope of French adverbs is aligned with their syntactic properties, relying on a view of adjuncts as loci for quantification, a linearization ...

A Linguistic Anthropology of Praxis and Language Shift: Arvanítika (Albanian) and Greek in Contact. LUKAS

This highly nuanced study, as the Bakhtinian framework adopted by author Tsitsipis (hereafter simply T) would have it, is " polyphonic " , in two ways. First of all, the subject matter — the effects of sustained contact in Greece between Modern Greek, as a dominant language, and the Arvanítika dialect of Tosk Albanian (i.e., the southern variety of the language) that has been spoken in Greece f...

Language Change and Language Contact