Progressive periphrases in language contact

Language Change and Language Contact

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.

Progressive Language Disorders

This paper describes a novel approach to the simulation of language disorders, based upon the notion of a multi-network architecture—a set of autonomous neural networks which have been linked in some manner to perform a complex function that cannot readily be performed by any one network alone. The merits of this approach have been assessed by mapping a neuropsychological model of single-word l...

Determining language contact effects in ancient contact situations

Proving the existence of ancient language contacts is easy; proving the existence of ancient contact-induced language change is much more difficult, by comparison to analyses of modern contact situations. This paper surveys some ancient contacts and their effects on the languages. The main conclusion is that the historical methods used for analyzing better-documented contact situations can be a...

Dutch in Indonesia: Language Attrition or Language Contact?