Language Change in Contact Languages

Grammatical and prosodic considerations

Special Issue of Studies in Language volume 33:2 (2009)

Editors

J. Clancy Clements | Indiana University

Shelome Gooden | University of Pittsburgh

[Studies in Language, 33:2] 2009. 250 pp.

Publishing status: Available

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https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.33.2

Table of Contents

Obituary	257–258
Language change in contact languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations: An introduction J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden	259–276
Articles
The contribution of relexification, grammaticalisation, and reanalysis to creole genesis and development Claire Lefebvre	277–311
Grammaticalization in creoles: Ordinary and not-so-ordinary cases Adrienne Bruyn	312–337
One in Singapore English Zhiming Bao	338–365
Contact-induced grammaticalization: Evidence from bilingual acquisition Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip	366–395
Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in ‘hybrid’ prosodic systems Shelome Gooden, Kathy-Ann Drayton and Mary E. Beckman	396–436
Subsystem interface and tone typology in Papiamentu Yolanda Rivera-Castillo	437–458
A twice-mixed creole? Tracing the history of a prosodic split in the Saramaccan lexicon Jeff Good	459–498

Subjects

Linguistics

Contact Linguistics

Functional linguistics

Theoretical linguistics