Variation Rolls the Dice
A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of variation in determining particular evolutionary trajectories in specific linguistic ecologies. The book therefore focuses on variation within and across languages, within and across speakers, and how this fundamental aspect of human behavior can affect language structure in time and space. Mufwene has been instrumental in putting creole languages on the map of General Linguistics and connecting their analysis to issues of language acquisition, multilingualism, language contact, language evolution, and language typology. Thanks to the diversity of topics and the wide-ranging theoretical persuasions of the contributors, this volume aims at a large readership including both scholars and advanced students interested in cutting-edge research in the aforementioned domains.
[Contact Language Library, 59] 2021. xiv, 330 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. vii–7
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Acronyms and glosses | pp. ix–xii
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Introduction: Ecology rolls the diceEnoch O. Aboh and Cécile B. Vigouroux | pp. 1–22
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A sociolinguistic typology for languages in contactWilliam Croft | pp. 23–56
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A local history of Tok Pisin : Language contact in Papua New GuineaGillian Sankoff | pp. 57–80
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Conventionalized creativity in the emergence of a mixed language – A case study of Light WarlpiriCarmel O’Shannessy | pp. 81–104
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Acquisition or shift? Interpreting variation in Gurindji children’s expression of spatial relationsVivien Dunn, Felicity Meakins and Cassandra Algy | pp. 105–131
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Substrate influence in Northern Quechua languagesPieter Muysken | pp. 133–160
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Coordination in the Suriname Creoles: Comparing Nenge(e) and MatawaiBettina Migge | pp. 161–189
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Reflections on Darwin’s natural selection: A lens on variation, competition and changeMarlyse Baptista | pp. 191–210
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Building grammar in the early stages of development of French Creoles: Insights from Second Language AcquisitionGeorges Daniel Véronique | pp. 211–242
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Foundings and futures: How to live like a Peranakan in the post-digital ecologyLisa Lim and Umberto Ansaldo | pp. 243–267
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Detecting loan words computationallyLiqin Zhang, Franz Manni, Ray Fabri and John Nerbonne | pp. 269–288
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Learnability and ecological factors as motivators of language changeNour Efrat-Kowalsky | pp. 289–305
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The restructuring of Salikoko Mufwene through competition and selection: A conversation between Salikoko Mufwene and Michel DeGraffMichel DeGraff | pp. 307–325
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Language Index | pp. 327–328
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Subject Index | pp. 329–330
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CFB: Sociolinguistics
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LAN009050: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics