Language contact : new perspectives / edited by Muriel Norde, Bob de Jonge, Cornelius Hasselblatt.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Cornelius Hasselblatt, Bob de Jonge and Muriel Norde -- Ethnolects as a multidimensional phenomenon / Pieter Muysken -- Applying language technology to detect shift effects / John Nerbonne [and others] -- Generational differences in pronominal usage in Spanish reflecting language and dialect contact in a bilingual setting / Ricardo Otheguy, Ana Celia Zentella and David Livert -- Personal pronoun variation in language contact: Estonian in the United States / Piibi-Kai Kivik -- Turkish in the Netherlands: development of a new variety? / A. Seza Dogruöz and Ad Backus -- The reflection of historical language contact in present-day Dutch and Swedish / Charlotte Gooskens, Renée van Bezooijen and Sebastian Kürschner -- The impact of German on Schleife Sorbian: The use of gor in the Eastern Sorbian border dialect / Hélène B. Brijnen -- Detecting contact effects in pronunciation / Wilbert Heeringa, John Nerbonne and Petya Osenova -- Language contact and phonological contrast: the case of coronal affricates in Japanese loans / Jason Shaw and Rahul Balusu -- Translating cultures within the EU / Nicola Borrelli -- Name index -- Subject index.

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The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new contact situations. This volume features ten papers on various aspects of language contact by leading specialists in the field. In these papers, contact-induced change in a wide variety of languages is approached from various perspectives, reflecting the current state of affairs in language contact studies. The first main theme in the volume is related to the linguistic effects of migration, both in the present and in the past, and both.

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