Publications

Publication details [#52790]

Stolz, Thomas, Dik Bakker and Rosa Salas Palomo, eds. 2008. Aspects of Language Contact. New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 35). De Gruyter. xiv+471 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
borrowing | creolization | language change | language contact | loanword
Language as a subject
Kulina | Languages, African | Languages, Amerindian | Languages, Austronesian | Languages, Canadian, Aboriginal | Languages, Germanic | Languages, Romance

Annotation

This volume addresses new developments in the field of contact-induced language change, with special regard to Romancisation processes. Two radically novel approaches to the theory of language contact are presented: a dynamic model and a constructivism-based theory.