Language Contact: Theoretical and Empirical Studies
β Scribed by Ernst H. Jahr (editor)
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 244
- Series
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 60
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Introduction
Language contacts between Southern Sami and Scandinavian
A contact feature in the phonology of a northern Norwegian dialect
The social and linguistic development of Scandoromani
Language contact in the Pacific: Samoan influence on Tokelauan
βYou can never tell where a word comes fromβ: language contact in a diffuse setting
The substratum in grammar and discourse
Dialect socialization in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Spitsbergen): a fruitful chaos
Ethnolinguistic minorities within the European community: migrants as ethnolinguistic minorities
Isolation, contact, and lexical variation in a tribal setting
Language contact in focused situations
Dialect typology and social structure
Borrowing and non-borrowing in Walapai
Subject Index
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