Language Contact
Spring 1996; Martin French
Examination of the main types of linguistic change that can be viewed
as arising from language contact. Pidginization and creolization,
structural and lexical contact change, language switching and mixing,
language attrition and "death".
Selected Topics from the Syllabus
- Pidgins and pidginization
- Creoles and creolization
- Code switching and mixing
- Lexical borrowing
- Structural changes and linguistic areas
- Linguistic attrition in "language death"
Texts and Readings
Appel & Muysken. 1987. Language Contact and Bilingualism. London: Edward Arnold.
Thomason & Kaufman. 1988. Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics.
Berkeley: UCP.
Holm, J. 1988. Pidgins and Creoles. CUP.
Further extensive bibliographies were included, as is Martin French's
wont, but I'm not so crazy as to actually attempt to type them all in.
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