Languages in contact and contrast : essays in contact linguistics / edited by Vladimir Ivir, Damir Kalogjera.

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Frontmatter -- The European absolute superlative, an orphan of grammar, of the lexicon, and of history / Austerlitz, Robert -- West European loanwords in Modern Latvian / Baldunčiks, Juris -- A hypothesis: the notion of "multibehavior" / Bantaş, Andrei -- Fact or not fact -- that is the question in the semantic interpretation of gerundive nominals / Berndt, Rolf -- Odmah -- a shifter of Serbo-Croatian in intralingual and contrastive perspective / Birnbaum, Henrik -- Language contact: some reactions of a contactee / Brown, Wayles -- Contrastive analysis of terminology and the terminology of contrastive analysis / Bugarski, Ranko -- South Slavic terms for conjurors and sorcerers / Conrad, Joseph L. -- Some notes on a Bulgarian model of expanded contrastive analysis / Danchev, Andrei -- A. P. Chekhov's short story Šutočka and two Serbo-Croat translations: The problem of translation versus interpretation / Davidsson, Carin -- Theoretical contrastive linguistics and typological characterization / Dezső, László -- Interradical interfixes: contact and contrast / Dressler, Wolfgang Ulrich / Merlini Barbaresi, Lavinia -- Some remarks on Middle-English influence in Icelandic / Eiríksson, Eyvindur -- An outline of a cognitively-based model of phonology / Eliasson, Stig -- Cartoons about language: a case study of the visual representation of sociolinguistic attitudes / Fishman, Joshua A. -- Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms, New Zealandisms, and Anglicisms in contemporary German / Galinsky, Hans -- Language contact in the prehistory of English / Hamp, Eric P. -- Collocations in monolingual and bilingual English dictionaries / Hausmann, Franz Josef -- Contrastive methods in contact linguistics / Ivir, Vladimir -- The "monitor model" and the role of the first language / James, Carl -- On the form and meaning of the Serbo-Croatian modal morati / Kalogjera, Damir -- Reasons and opportunities for communication in the foreign-language and second-language classroom / Lee, William R. -- Between language contact and language development / Maček, Dora -- The lexicon of the Split dialect / Magner, Thomas F. -- Zu Phrasemvarianten in der kroatischen Sprache / Matešić, Josip -- Dictionary making: the ideal versus reality / Monson, Samuel C. -- Vokalsysteme in Kontakt. Was verdankt der vegliotische Vokalismus der slawo-romanischen Symbiose? / Muljačić, Žarko -- The designation of spherical objects in five European languages: an essay in contrastive semantics / Nehls, Dietrich -- A case of multilingualism in Eastern Belgium / Nelde, Peter H. -- Language contact and foreign language acquisition / Nemser, William -- On the struggle of underlying vowels for a voice in surface phonetic structure / Ridjanović, Midhat -- English in Finnish: television subtitles / Sajavaara, Kari -- Politeness strategies and contrastive foreign language teaching / Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana -- On revived words in the OED Supplement / Sørensen, Knud -- Common features in the morphological adaptation of English loanwords in migrant Serbo-Croatian / Stoffel, Hans-Peter -- Linguistic models and information theory / Thomas, Owen -- Language contact and code-switching in the bilingual personality / Titone, Renzo -- Contrastive reflexes in contact linguistics / Tomić, Olga Mišeska -- Transfer grammar: from machine translation to pedagogical tool / Troike, Rudolph C. -- Encouraging the development of bilingual proficiency for English-speaking Americans / Tucker, G. Richard -- A contemporary view on the compromise system of Serbo-Croatian learners of English / Vilke, Mirjana -- Croatian and Serbian church communities in Milwaukee / Ward, Charles A. -- Subject index -- Backmatter

The papers in this collection throw fresh light on the relation between language contact and contrastive linguistics. The book focuses equally on the mutual influence of linguistic systems in contact and on the language contrasts that govern the linguistic behaviour of the bilingual speaker.

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