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Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken
Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh
[Contact Language Library 57] 2020
► pp. 1–34

Introduction
Pieter C. Muysken

A brief biography, a language contact bibliography and a Festschrift summary

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Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Part 1.Brief biography
    • 1.1Birth
    • 1.2University education
    • 1.3Career
  • Part 2.A language contact overview with bibliography
    • 2.1Preoccupations
    • 2.2Analysis of publications and editorial work
    • 2.3Two examples of early seminal articles
    • 2.4A provisional list of articles, authored and edited books involving Pieter C. Muysken’s language contact interests
      • 2.4.1Pidgin & Creole studies
        • 2.4.1.1Creole – Defining
        • 2.4.1.2Pidgin & Creole – Detailed
      • 2.4.2Language contact studies
      • 2.4.3Bilingualism/multilingualism
      • 2.4.4Code-switching/code-mixing
      • 2.4.5Mixed language studies
      • 2.4.6Areal linguistics
      • 2.4.7The languages of immigrants
        • 2.4.7.1Second language learning by foreign workers
        • 2.4.7.2Ethnolects
        • 2.4.7.3Heritage languages
      • 2.4.8Regional studies (sub-continental)
      • 2.4.9Borrowing
    • 2.5Final remarks
  • Part 3.The Festschrift
    • 3.1Creole languages and creole studies
      • 3.1.1Moving into and out of Sranan: Multiple effects of contact (Essegbey & Bruyn)
      • 3.1.2Sociolinguistic characteristics of the English-lexifier contact languages of West Africa (Yakpo)
      • 3.1.3The quest for non-European creoles: Is Kukama (Brazil, Peru) a creole language? (Bakker)
      • 3.1.4Are creoles a special type of language?: Methodological issues in new approaches to an old question (Kouwenberg & Singler)
    • 3.2Linguistic areas
      • 3.2.1Separating layers of information: The anatomy of contact zones (van Gijn)
      • 3.2.2Areal diffusion of applicatives in the Amazon (Crevels & van der Voort)
      • 3.2.3Transfer of Swahili ‘until’ in contact with East African languages (Mous)
    • 3.3Mixed languages and language mixing
      • 3.3.1Turkish-German code-switching patterns revisited: What naturalistic data can(not) tell us (Treffers-Daller)
      • 3.3.2Mixing and Semantic Transparency in the genesis of Yilan Japanese (Rojas Berscia)
      • 3.3.3Pottefers Cant, Groenstraat Bargoens, and the development of “have” and “be” in the wider context of contact (Smith & Hinskens)
    • 3.4Sociolinguistic aspects of language contact
      • 3.4.1Sociolinguistic enregisterment through languagecultural practices: (Cornips & de Rooij)
      • 3.4.2Snow on the Danish Antilles?: Referee design in Virgin Island Dutch Creole (van Rossem)
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 29 October 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/coll.57.int
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