Journal articles: 'Contact linguistics'

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PLATT, JOHN. "CONTACT LINGUISTICS." World Englishes 7, no. 3 (November 1988): 353–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1988.tb00250.x.

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Hakimov, Nikolay, and Ad Backus. "Usage-Based Contact Linguistics: Effects of Frequency and Similarity in Language Contact." Journal of Language Contact 13, no. 3 (July 22, 2021): 459–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-13030009.

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Abstract The influence of usage frequency, and particularly of linguistic similarity on human linguistic behavior and linguistic change in situations of language contact are well documented in contact linguistics literature. However, a theoretical framework capable of unifying the various explanations, which are usually couched in either structuralist, sociolinguistic, or psycholinguistic parlance, is still lacking. In this introductory article we argue that a usage-based approach to language organization and linguistic behavior suits this purpose well and that the study of language contact phenomena will benefit from the adoption of this theoretical perspective. The article sketches an outline of usage-based linguistics, proposes ways to analyze language contact phenomena in this framework, and summarizes the major findings of the individual contributions to the special issue, which not only demonstrate that contact phenomena are usefully studied from the usage-based perspective, but document that taking a usage-based approach reveals new aspects of old phenomena.

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Bidese, Ermenegildo. "Reassessing Contact Linguistics." Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 84, no. 2-3 (2017): 126–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.25162/zdl-2017-0007.

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Teich, Elke, and Mônica Holtz. "Scientific registers in contact." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14, no. 4 (December 15, 2009): 524–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.14.4.04tei.

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We report on a project investigating the lexico-grammatical properties of English scientific texts. The goal of this project is to gain insight into the linguistic effects of two scientific disciplines coming into contact with one another (e.g. computer science and linguistics) and possibly forming a merged, new discipline (i.e. computational linguistics). The crucial question to be addressed is how such merged disciplines construe their own, distinctive identity and which kinds of linguistic means they employ to this end. To approach this question, we apply the notion of register, i.e. functional variation or variation according to context of use. On the basis of a corpus of scientific research articles from nine scientific domains, we explore selected lexico-grammatical patterns and assess their contribution to register formation.

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Berngardt, Anetta V. "Problem fields of contact linguistics terms." Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin 2, no. 29 (2022): 151–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2499-9679-2022-2-29-151-158.

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Bilingualism as a multidimensional problem is studied in many sciences. Bilingual research in linguistics is primarily about studying the specifics of languages functioning in close contact. The terminological apparatus of this field is ex-tensive, but it has a number of imperfections. Despite the long history of bilingual studies, there is no clear definition of each term used here. This article analyzes the basic terms of bilingual studies, their definitions, and approaches to their use. Key terms in bilingual studies include bilingualism, interference, transference, code-switching, borrowing, and several others. The terms «interference» and « transference» raise the majority of questions, which is primarily due to the differences in Russian and foreign linguistic traditions. At the same time, the formation of a linguistic personality is influenced not only by the level of language proficiency, but also by the cultural and social environment. The terms «linguistic biography» and «semilingualism» were introduced to describe the totality of factors influencing the linguistic personality of a bilingual. The terms «code-switching» and «borrowing as a form of language interaction» are also problematic in contact lin-guistics, but many linguists refer to them as special cases of lexical interference. After analyzing bilingual terminology, the author concludes that mutual interaction of languages in speech contact is not static; therefore, it cannot be placed in the existing conventional frameworks and schemes. This is why terminol-ogy disputes are inevitable, and the basic terms of contact linguistics constitute a special study case.

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VAN COETSEM, Frans †. "Topics in Contact Linguistics." Leuvense Bijdragen - Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology 92, no. 1 (October 1, 2003): 27–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/lb.92.1.542034.

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KACHRU, BRAJ B. "Englishization and contact linguistics." World Englishes 13, no. 2 (July 1994): 135–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1994.tb00303.x.

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Olate V, Aldo, and Marisol Henríquez B. "Actitudes lingüísticas de profesores mapuche de Educación Básica: vigencia y enseñanza del mapudungun en el contexto educativo." Literatura y Lingüística, no. 22 (June 25, 2015): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.29344/0717621x.22.126.

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ResumenEn el presente trabajo se presentarán algunos resultados de un estudio exploratorio y descriptivo que tiene como propósito indagar en las actitudes de profesores de educación general básica frente a la vigencia del mapudungun en contacto con el español. Este estudio se llevó a cabo en dos comunidades mapuche pertenecientes a la VIII Regióndel Bío Bío y IX Región de la Araucanía. Ambas caracterizadas por su alta densidad poblacional indígena. En esta investigación se seleccionaron tres establecimientos educacionalescuyo proyecto educativo se enmarca dentro del contexto del Programa de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe (PEIB). De estos establecimientos se escogieron seis docentes mapuche a quienes se les aplicó un cuestionario sociolingüístico para relevarlas actitudes linguisticas hacia las lenguas en contacto, la vigencia y preservación delvernáculo en la comunidad escolar y las actitudes hacia el PEIB.Palabras Clave: Actitudes lingüísticas – educación intercultural – lenguas en contacto– bilingüismo AbstractThis article presents some results of an exploratory and descriptive study wich examinesthe linguistics attitudes of elementary levels teachers towards the vitality and permanenceof the mapudungun language in areas of linguistic contact with spanish. This study wasconducted in two mapuche communities from both the VIII region of Bio Bio and theIX region of Araucanía. These regions are characterized by their high density of nativepopulation. This research selected three schools in wich the Programa de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe (PEIB) was incorporated as part of their educational projects.KeyWords: Linguistics Attitudes- intercultural education – bilingualism - languagesin contact.

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Both, Csaba Attila. "Phonetic Adaptation of Hungarian Loanwords in Romanian." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 7, no. 3 (December 1, 2015): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0059.

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Abstract In current linguistics, as well as in the fields of contact linguistics and sociolinguistics, the assessment of contact between the different languages used by speakers living in the same geographical/political area receives a pronounced role. These languages inevitably come into contact. The research on language contact between Hungarian and Romanian has a past marked by scholarly works that focus especially on the lexical- semantic level. Because contact between linguistic phenomena occurs at every level of language, it is necessary to focus on the smallest linguistic elements as well. In our work, we analyse a corpus of words borrowed from Hungarian by the Romanian language, focusing on stop sounds. In our paper, we establish the main phonetic transfer modalities, discussing the subject in an international framework.

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King, Kendall A., Vladimir Ivir, and Damir Kalogjera. "Languages in Contact and Contrast: Essays in Contact Linguistics." Language 69, no. 2 (June 1993): 423. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416569.

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Bazylev, V. N. "New achievements in Russian linguistics (neo-psycholinguistics, migration linguistics, contact linguistics, computational linguistics, connectivistics)." Russian language at school 82, no. 6 (November 20, 2021): 73–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2021-82-6-73-78.

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Abstract. The paper is focused on relevant directions in modern Russian Linguistics. It is the continuation of the 2019 publication where the ideas of Pedagogical and Anthropo-Oriented Linguistics, Political Communication Studies and Theological Linguistics were introduced. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the expanding horizons of the science about the language of the 21st century. The particular sections of the text characterize the goals of modern linguistics, its key concepts, objectives and methods currently employed in the sphere of studying language and real discursive practices. The methodology of the research consists in describing new research paradigms. Such paradigms are objectively formed in the course of progressing scientific activity; their changes are triggered by the evolution of society, its socially valuable demand to upgrade not only science but also its educational system on the basis of certain conceptual, value, methodological and technological beliefs. The idea behind this paper is to help teachers to make sense of a big variety of modern linguistic ideas and opt for those which they can use to develop innovative approaches to teaching Russian.

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Chirkova, Katia, and Tao Gong. "Modeling change in contact settings." Language Dynamics and Change 9, no. 1 (May 17, 2019): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22105832-00802006.

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Abstract Convergence is an oft-used notion in contact linguistics and historical linguistics. Yet it is problematic as an explanatory account for the changes it represents. In this study, we model one specific case of convergence (Duoxu, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language with 9 remaining speakers) to contribute to a more systematic understanding of the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon. The goals are (1) to address the role of some linguistic and social factors assumed to have an effect on the process of convergence, and (2) to test the following explanations of empirical observations related to phonological convergence: (a) the loss of phonological segments in a language that has undergone convergence is correlated with the relative frequency and markedness of these segments in the combined bilingual repertoire, and (b) widespread bilingualism is a prerequisite for convergence. The results of our agent-based simulation affirm the importance of frequency and markedness of phonological segments in the process of convergence. At the same time, they suggest that the explanation related to widespread bilingualism may not be valid. Our study suggests computer simulations as a promising tool for investigation of complex cases of language change in contact settings.

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Isakova, Zilolakhon Zokirovna. "THE CATEGORY OF VALUE IN LINGUISTICS." Scientific Reports of Bukhara State University 4, no. 6 (December 29, 2020): 133–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.52297/2181-1466/2020/4/6/4.

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Background. This article is about axiological relations in the process of contact which is being studied as an developing branch of cognitive linguistics. As we know, axiology was considered as a part of philosophy and logic and its concepts were studied in these subjects. At the end of the 20th century the concept of linguistic axiology was learnt in the sphere of linguistics. Methods. This article is devoted to analytical information about researches and development of axiology was studied as linguistic, logical and philosophical categories. As mentioned above, in modern linguistics, the understanding of the text in pragmatic aspect and the analysis of the role that the price category do not have a long history. In the expression of connotation, it is necessary drawing attention to the following factors: the worldview of the addressant who describes linguistic realities – the speaker and the addressee is a person who accepts linguistic realities – listener; their views on each other or situation in which they are entering into contact; what is the purpose of the addressee and the addressee of communication

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KLEE, CAROL A. "The role of language contact in semantic change: Ser and estar – a response to Geeslin and Guijarro-Fuentes." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 11, no. 3 (November 2008): 381–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s136672890800360x.

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The role of language contact in linguistic change remains a polemic issue in the field of contact linguistics. Many researchers (Weinreich, 1953; Lefebvre, 1985; Prince, 1988; Silva-Corvalán, 1994; King, 2000; Sankoff, 2002; Labov, 2007) believe that there are limits on the types of linguistic patterns that can be transmitted across languages, while others (Thomason and Kaufman, 1988, p. 14) deem that “any linguistic feature can be transferred from any language to any other language”. Regardless of the differences of opinion on this issue, there is widespread recognition that the social context, including such features as the size and characteristics of the bilingual groups, the attitudes toward the languages spoken, and the intensity and duration of language contact, play an important role in determining the linguistic outcomes of language contact.

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Jasanoff, Jay H., Sarah Grey Thomason, and Terrence Kaufman. "Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics." Language 65, no. 3 (September 1989): 623. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415230.

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Blommaert, Jan. "Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics." Journal of Pragmatics 14, no. 5 (October 1990): 813–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(90)90007-z.

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Harvey, Herbert R., Sarah Grey Thomason, and Terrence Kaufman. "Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics." Ethnohistory 37, no. 2 (1990): 225. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/482559.

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Verschik, Anna. "Introduction: Contacts of Estonian in the light of contact linguistics research." Sociolinguistic Studies 8, no. 3 (May 11, 2015): 345–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.v8i3.25494.

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Léglise, Isabelle, and Sophie Alby. "Plurilingual corpora and polylanguaging, where corpus linguistics meets contact linguistics." Sociolinguistic Studies 10, no. 3 (July 3, 2016): 357–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.v10i3.27918.

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Vaan, Michiel de. "A contact-induced strategy of femininisation." NOWELE / North-Western European Language Evolution 75, no. 1 (March 16, 2022): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00060.vaa.

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Abstract Middle Dutch and Middle High German possess a femininizing suffix ‑erse, of which reflexes survive in some modern dialects. Its Old Germanic preform arose from the grafting of Latin ‑issa onto the masculine suffix *‑ārja‑ in Dutch and German dialects closest to the Gallo-Romance area in the Early Middle Ages. The main aim of the present contribution is to provide hitherto underexposed details on the Dutch linguistic area, to show that the mainstream historical explanation for ‑erse in Dutch historical linguistics must be given up, and to provide a unified and more detailed account for the rise of this suffix formation in the medieval contact zone between Gallo-Romance and Germanic.

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Huayong, Lin, Wu Xueyu, and Liu Zhiling. "A Study on a Group of Grammatical Features across Western Yue Dialects: Perspectives from Contact-induced Grammaticalization and Semantic Map Model." Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics 10, no. 2 (March 9, 2019): 197–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405478x-01002004.

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The theory of contact-induced grammaticalization has been proposed to examine language contact and grammatical change, and was introduced into Chinese linguistic circles over 10 years ago. It contributes to a series of developments and breakthroughs in the domain of contact between Chinese and other languages as well as contact among Chinese dialects. Recent approaches to Chinese linguistics combine the theory with Semantic Map Model. In this paper, we focus on the Chinese linguistic studies benefitting from the theory and discuss a group of regional grammatical features which have provided the linguistic basis for cultural regionalization in Guangdong Province.

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Dodsworth, Robin. "Migration and Dialect Contact." Annual Review of Linguistics 3, no. 1 (January 14, 2017): 331–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011516-034108.

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Yadin-Israel, Azzan. "Contact Without Borrowing." Journal of Ancient Judaism 9, no. 2 (May 19, 2018): 230–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/21967954-00902006.

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The field of contact linguistics has produced valuable insights into the ways languages behave in contact environments, and the present essay represents an attempt to adapt a number of these insights to the study of cultural contact more broadly. The historical phenomenon under discussion is a theological strand shared by rabbinic and late antique Platonist sources, namely, the attempt to formulate a theory of sacrifice that does not entail an anthropomorphic conception of (the highest) God. After adducing some of the key sources that represent this attempt in the respective traditions, the essay examines how best to conceptualize such similarity, absent shared terminology, explicit cross-tradition citations or references, or any other traditional markers of “influence.” Here I employ the contact-linguistic category of areal diffusion, that describes the tendency of languages in contact over time to gradually adopt common features, even though it is not possible to determine which language “borrowed” from the other. Taking the theological critique of sacrifice as the cultural analogue to a linguistic feature, it is possible to see how the feature is evident in certain streams within rabbinic Judaism, platonic Paganism, and early Christianity. The essay then turns to examine some of the ramifications of a contact-linguistic approach and, drawing on the work of Salikoko Mufwene, puts forth two arguments: that the distinction between internally- and externally-induced change is both theoretically and analytically inadequate; and the need to examine cultural continuity no less than cultural change as the result of contact dynamics.

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Operstein, Natalie. "Contact-genetic linguistics: toward a contact-based theory of language change." Language Sciences 48 (March 2015): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2014.10.001.

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Buccini, Anthony F. "Between Pre-German and Pre-English: The Origin of Dutch." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 22, no. 4 (December 2010): 301–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542710000073.

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This paper examines the socio-historical context in which Dutch arose as a result of contact between Frankish and Ingvæonic speakers in the seventh and eighth centuries. I first consider some persistent pitfalls in socio-historical linguistics with regard to better-known instances of language contact in medieval Europe. I review the reflexes of umlaut in Dutch and propose a solution for this long-standing problem in terms of language contact. Finally, the linguistic analysis is placed in a social and historical context, with special attention to the role of slavery in creating the context for the linguistic developments that took place.*

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Bright, William, and Jacek Fisiak. "Linguistic Change under Contact Conditions." Language 72, no. 4 (December 1996): 873. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416134.

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Gilquin, Gaëtanelle. "At the interface of contact linguistics and second language acquisition research." English World-Wide 36, no. 1 (February 10, 2015): 91–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.36.1.05gil.

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This paper examines the possible interface between contact linguistics and second language acquisition research by comparing the institutionalized second-language varieties of English known as “New Englishes” and the foreign varieties of English called “Learner Englishes”. On the basis of corpus data representing several populations of various origins, it investigates four linguistic phenomena, ranging from syntax (embedded inversion) to lexis (phrasal verbs with up), through phraseology (word clusters) and pragmatics (discourse markers), with a view to identifying similarities and differences between the two types of varieties at several levels of the language. The paper also explores avenues for going beyond a descriptive account towards a more explanatory one, in an attempt to build the foundations of a theoretical rapprochement between contact linguistics and second language acquisition research.

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Butler, Christopher S. "Systemic Functional Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and psycholinguistics." Functions of Language 20, no. 2 (September 6, 2013): 185–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.20.2.03but.

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The overall aim of this article is to explain why researchers working in Systemic Functional Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics would benefit from dialogue with people working in psycholinguistics, and with each other. After a brief introduction, the positions on cognition taken in the Sydney and Cardiff models of Systemic Functional Linguistics are reviewed and critiqued. I then assess the extent to which Cognitive Linguistics has honoured the ‘cognitive commitment’ which it claims to make. The following section examines compatibilities between Systemic Functional and Cognitive Linguistic approaches, first outlining existing work which combines Hallidayan and cognitive perspectives, then discussing other potential areas of contact between the two, and finally examining the Cardiff model in relation to Cognitive Linguistics. The final section presents a collaborative view, suggesting that the ultimate aim of functionally-oriented (including cognitive) linguistics should be to attempt to answer the question ‘How does the natural language user work?’, and pointing out that collaboration between proponents of different linguistic models, and between linguists and researchers in other disciplines which study language, is crucial to this enterprise. Suggestions are made for ways in which dialogue across the areas of Systemic Functional Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and psycholinguistics could contribute to such a project.

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Siegel, Jeff. "Creolization outside Creolistics." Creole Language in Creole Literatures 20, no. 1 (June 1, 2005): 141–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.20.1.08sie.

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Looking up ‘creolization’ on any data base, or doing a search at amazon.com or simply googling the term will show that it is more widely used outside linguistics than inside – especially in anthropology, sociology, history and literary studies. Jourdan (2001: 2903) notes that the term has been borrowed from linguistics where one of its definitions is the creation of a new language out of contact between at least two different languages. Creolization in the sociocultural context usually refers to the creation of new aspects of culture as a result of contact between different cultures. In this column, I present some background information on what I'll call ‘sociocultural creolization’ and its links with linguistic creolization. Then I describe what I see as some of the differences between the sociocultural and linguistic approaches. I conclude with implications of these differences for the field of creolistics.

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Kim, Agnes, and Ludwig M. Breuer. "On the Development of an Interdisciplinary Annotation and Classification System for Language Varieties – Challenges and Solutions." Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis 68, no. 2 (December 1, 2017): 191–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0029.

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Abstract The Special Research Programme (SFB) ‘German in Austria: Variation – Contact – Perception’ is a project financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF F60). Its nine project parts are collaboratively conducting research on the variation and change of the German language in Austria. The SFB explores the use and the subjective perception of the German language in Austria as well as its contact with other languages. Methodologically and theoretically, most SFB project parts are situated within variationist linguistics, others in contact linguistics and perceptionist linguistics. This paper gives an insight into the conception of a framework for the annotation and ultimately also classification of language varieties, which is being developed within the SFB. It outlines the requirements of the various project parts and reviews, whether and how standardised language codes (ISO 639) and language tags (following BCP 47) can be utilised for the annotation of language varieties in variationist linguistic projects.

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Dabir-Moghaddam, Mohammad. "A Linguistic Survey of Khorasan: Implications for Language Isolation, Language Change, and Contact Linguistics." Iranian Studies 53, no. 3-4 (June 23, 2020): 353–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2020.1716190.

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Grant, Anthony P., Hans Goebl, Peter H. Nelde, Zdenek Stary, and Wolfgang Wolck. "Kontaktlinguistik-contact linguistics-linguistique de contact: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenossichen Forschung." Language 75, no. 1 (March 1999): 210. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417547.

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Jourdan, Christine. "Contact." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9, no. 1-2 (June 1999): 46–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1999.9.1-2.46.

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van der Kooij, Els. "Contact." Linguistics in the Netherlands 1997 14 (August 11, 1997): 109–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.14.12koo.

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Abstract In early, simultaneous analyses of signs, [a_contact] is a multivalent feature pertaining to the movement parameter (cf. Friedman 1976). In models that make use of sequential units (Liddell and Johnson 1989, Sandler 1989, Perlmutter 1989, van der Hulst 1993) the valence of [contact] can be reduced to one. In comparing two types of sequential models I will show that one of them - the No-Movement model -is more adequate in accounting for the contact types proposed in Friedman (1976). By examining the consequences of the representation of the contact types in the No-Movement model of van der Hulst (1993) and further developments thereof (Crasborn 1995,1996; van der Hulst 1995, 1996; van der Kooij 1994, 1996; van der Kooij and Crasborn 1996). I will show that contact is a redundant property, predictable from the place specification of the sign. Being phonologically redundant, variation and non-distinctiveness of contact is correctly predicted.

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Csató, Éva Ágnes. "Analyzing Contact-Induced Phenomena in Karaim." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 25, no. 2 (August 25, 1999): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v25i2.1210.

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Gooden, Shelome. "Intonation and Prosody in Creole Languages: An Evolving Ecology." Annual Review of Linguistics 8, no. 1 (January 14, 2022): 343–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031120-124320.

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Research on the prosody and intonation of creole languages has largely remained an untapped resource, yet it is important for enriching our understanding of how or if their phonological systems changed or developed under contact. Further, their hybrid histories and current linguistic ecologies present descriptive and analytical treasure troves. This has the potential to inform many areas of linguistic inquiry including contact effects on the typological classification of prosodic systems, socioprosodic variation (individual and community level), and the scope of diversity in prosodic systems among creole languages and across a variety of languages similarly influenced by language contact. Thus, this review highlights the importance of pushing beyond questions of creole language typology and genetic affiliation. I review the existing research on creole language prosody and intonation, provide some details on a few studies, and highlight some key challenges and opportunities for the subfield and for linguistics in general.

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Bohnemeyer, Jürgen, Katharine T. Donelson, Randi E. Moore, Elena Benedicto, Alyson Eggleston, Carolyn K. O’Meara, Gabriela Pérez Báez, et al. "The Contact Diffusion of Linguistic Practices." Language Dynamics and Change 5, no. 2 (2015): 169–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22105832-00502002.

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We examine the extent to which practices of language use may be diffused through language contact and areally shared, using data on spatial reference frame use by speakers of eight indigenous languages from in and around the Mesoamerican linguistic area and three varieties of Spanish. Regression models show that the frequency of L2-Spanish use by speakers of the indigenous languages predicts the use of relative reference frames in the L1 even when literacy and education levels are accounted for. A significant difference in frame use between the Mesoamerican and non-Mesoamerican indigenous languages further supports the contact diffusion analysis.

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Jeszenszky, Péter, Yoshinobu Hikosaka, Satoshi Imamura, and Keiji Yano. "Japanese Lexical Variation Explained by Spatial Contact Patterns." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 8, no. 9 (September 6, 2019): 400. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8090400.

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In this paper, we analyse spatial variation in the Japanese dialectal lexicon by assembling a set of methodologies using theories in variationist linguistics and GIScience, and tools used in historical GIS. Based on historical dialect atlas data, we calculate a linguistic distance matrix across survey localities. The linguistic variation expressed through this distance is contrasted with several measurements, based on spatial distance, utilised to estimate language contact potential across Japan, historically and at present. Further, administrative boundaries are tested for their separation effect. Measuring aggregate associations within linguistic variation can contrast previous notions of dialect area formation by detecting continua. Depending on local geographies in spatial subsets, great circle distance, travel distance and travel times explain a similar proportion of the variance in linguistic distance despite the limitations of the latter two. While they explain the majority, two further measurements estimating contact have lower explanatory power: least cost paths, modelling contact before the industrial revolution, based on DEM and sea navigation, and a linguistic influence index based on settlement hierarchy. Historical domain boundaries and present day prefecture boundaries are found to have a statistically significant effect on dialectal variation. However, the interplay of boundaries and distance is yet to be identified. We claim that a similar methodology can address spatial variation in other digital humanities, given a similar spatial and attribute granularity.

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BRODY, MICHAL. "An Introduction to Contact Linguistics – By Donald Winford." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 18, no. 1 (June 2008): 151–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1395.2008.00007.x.

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Winford, Donald. "Creole Formation in the Context of Contact Linguistics." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 131–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.12.1.06win.

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Hackert, Stephanie. "Donald Winford. 2003. An Introduction to Contact Linguistics." English World-Wide 26, no. 1 (March 11, 2005): 113–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.26.1.10hac.

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Nelde, Peter Hans. "Language Contact." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 15 (March 1995): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190500002622.

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Regardless of one's gastronomic persuasion, the point of the questions above have nothing to do with food; rather, they have to do with language. Even if a person speaks no German, French or Italian, words like wienerschnitzel, vinaigrette, and cappucino are very likely part of his or her vocabulary, the result of contact between speakers of English and those of other languages, leading to the introduction of foreign words into English. Although this little culinary example is not by itself significant, it does represent a phenomenon that is extremely widespread throughout the world, since contact between speakers of different languages is the rule rather than the exception. Thus, language contact and its consequences constitute a very rich area of linguistic inquiry.

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Kootstra, Gerrit Jan, and Pieter Muysken. "Structural Priming, Levels of Awareness, and Agency in Contact-Induced Language Change." Languages 4, no. 3 (August 23, 2019): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages4030065.

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This paper focuses on structural priming, levels of awareness, and agency in contact-induced language change, bringing insights from historical and anthropological linguistics together with psycholinguistic, processing-based approaches. We begin with a discussion of the relation between levels of awareness and agency in the linguistic literature, focusing on the work of Von Humboldt, Silverstein, Van Coetsem, and Trudgill. Then we turn to the psycholinguistic notion of structural priming, aiming to show that cross-linguistic structural priming is a plausible mechanism driving contact-induced language change, and explore the properties of priming and its relation to the levels of awareness discussion in the linguistic literature. We end with suggestions for future research to further elucidate the relation between structural priming, levels of awareness, and agency in contact-induced language change.

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Nerbonne, John. "Measuring the diffusion of linguistic change." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365, no. 1559 (December 12, 2010): 3821–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0048.

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We examine situations in which linguistic changes have probably been propagated via normal contact as opposed to via conquest, recent settlement and large-scale migration. We proceed then from two simplifying assumptions: first, that all linguistic variation is the result of either diffusion or independent innovation, and, second, that we may operationalize social contact as geographical distance. It is clear that both of these assumptions are imperfect, but they allow us to examine diffusion via the distribution of linguistic variation as a function of geographical distance. Several studies in quantitative linguistics have examined this relation, starting with Séguy (Séguy 1971 Rev. Linguist. Romane 35 , 335–357), and virtually all report a sublinear growth in aggregate linguistic variation as a function of geographical distance. The literature from dialectology and historical linguistics has mostly traced the diffusion of individual features, however, so that it is sensible to ask what sort of dynamic in the diffusion of individual features is compatible with Séguy's curve. We examine some simulations of diffusion in an effort to shed light on this question.

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Myers-Scotton, Carol. ": Languages in Contact and Contrast: Essays in Contact Linguistics . Vladimir Ivir, Damir Kalogjera." American Anthropologist 94, no. 4 (December 1992): 1018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.1992.94.4.02a01000.

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Stroud, Christopher. "The Development of Metropolitan Languages in Post-Colonial Contexts: Language Contact and Language Change and the Case of Portuguese in Maputo." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 19, no. 2 (December 1996): 183–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586500003383.

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This article explores briefly some phenomena of potential indigenization of the Portuguese spoken in Mozambique. Data for the study has been taken from work that is currently underway in Maputo, Mozambique, that was originally initiated to investigate contact varieties of Portuguese and to probe their educational implications. Speech samples comprise formal interviews and non-formal encounters from a socio-demographically representative sample of informants. The article first provides an inventory of some non-standard European Portuguese variants that are found in this data, and subsequently focusses upon a discussion of what contribution different linguistic processes make to indigenization, specifically the role played by processes of second language acquisition in a context of massive and diffuse language contact and change. Special attention is also paid to the social contexts in which different manifestations of language contact are found, and the importance of linguistic ideology for the form that language contact takes in particular cases is explored. The article concludes with the suggestion that the salient characteristics of types of non-native speech community such as Maputo require a reconceptualization of models and methods of contact linguistics and second language acquisition, and that this in turn carries implications for the terms of reference and analysis to which indigenization need be related.

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Lee, Nala H. "The Status of Endangered Contact Languages of the World." Annual Review of Linguistics 6, no. 1 (January 14, 2020): 301–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030427.

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This article provides an up-to-date perspective on the endangerment that contact languages around the world are facing, with a focus on pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages. While language contact is often associated with language shift and hence language endangerment, languages arising from contact also can and do face the risk of endangerment. Recent observations and studies show that contact languages may be at twice the risk of endangerment and loss compared with noncontact languages. The loss of these languages is highly consequential. The arguments that usually apply to why noncontact languages should be conserved also apply to many of these contact languages. This article highlights recent work on the documentation and preservation of contact languages and suggests that much more can be done to protect and conserve this unique category of languages.

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WINFORD, DONALD. "In search of a unified model of language contact." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 16, no. 4 (May 31, 2013): 734–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728913000230.

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Much previous research has pointed to the need for a unified framework for language contact phenomena – one that would include social factors and motivations, structural factors and linguistic constraints, and psycholinguistic factors involved in processes of language processing and production. While Contact Linguistics has devoted a great deal of attention to the structural properties of contact phenomena and their sources in the input languages, the field has made much less progress in attending to Weinreich's observation that language contact can best be understood only “in a broad psychological and socio-cultural setting” (Weinreich, 1953, p. 4). There have been some attempts to establish links between the disciplines that investigate language contact, for example, the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic (Walters, 2005), and the linguistic and psycholinguistic (Myers-Scotton 2002, Winford 2009, among others). Yet, so far, no one has come close to achieving the kind of integrative, multi-disciplinary framework that Weinreich envisaged. Muysken's paper is therefore a welcome reminder of the need for such a framework, and the complexity of the task involved in constructing it, if indeed it can be accomplished. The introduction to the paper outlines a very ambitious objective – “to explore the possibility of unifying these fields, all different approaches to language contact, creating a single framework within which it is possible to link results from different subfields” (Section 1.1).

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Childs, G. Tucker. "Expressiveness in Contact Situations." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9, no. 2 (January 1, 1994): 257–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.9.2.03chi.

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Typically not the focus of linguistic analysis, the expressive function nonetheless represents a core linguistic behavior. Throughout Africa, ideo-phones robustly manifest that function. When adult speakers learn and begin to use a second language, particularly in contact situations with limited L2 input, they often draw on structures and resources from L1. These facts suggest that when languages with ideophones serve as the substrate for a contact language, ideophones will be found in that new language, as is the case for, e.g., Krioulo (Guinea Bissau), Krio (Sierra Leone), and Liberian English. Yet, not all African contact languages possess ideophones. This paper characterizes the distribution of ideophones in pidgins, Creoles, and other contact varieties.

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Roberge, Paul T. "CONVERGENCE AND THE FORMATION OF AFRIKAANS." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 14, no. 1 (March 2002): 57–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542702046032.

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As a phenomenon to be explained, convergence in historical linguistics is substantively no different than in creolistics. The general idea is that accommodation by speakers of “established” languages in contact and the formation of new language varieties both involve a process of leveling of different structures that achieve the same referential and nonreferential effects. The relatively short and well-documented history of Afrikaans presents an important case study in the competition and selection of linguistic features during intensive language contact.

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