Publications

Publication details [#51697]

Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2009. Replication, transfer, and calquing: Using variation as a tool in the study of language contact. Language Variation and Change 21 (3) : 297–317.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creolization | language contact | language transfer | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Bislama | Tamambo

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Drawing on corpora of Bislama and Tamambo narratives, this study illustrates the potential and limitations of comparing constraint rankings across languages as (counter)evidence of feature transfer in long term language contact cases.