Thomason has worked since 1981 documenting montana salish, as well as with the salish and pend doreille culture committee, compiling a dictionary and materials for the salishpend doreille. The handbook of language contact wiley online books. Language contact in africa and the african diaspora in the. Publication date 1988 topics afrikaans detailed description, afr publisher university of california press. There are different kinds of contact, depending on the manner in which speakers interface with each other. For the integration of contact induced language change into historical linguistics this book constitutes the greatest breakthrough since uriel weinreichs languages in contact of 1953, and i am convinced it will be the touchstone for the further development of the discipline for years to come. In this survey of the social, political and linguistic consequences of language contact, sarah g. Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics.
In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of historical, cultural and demographic factors in language contact situations. Pidgin genesis and contact induced language change 191 7. View table of contents for the handbook of language contact. Languages in contact linguistic society of america.
The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact induced language change. It outlines the origins and results of contact induced language change, extreme language mixturewhich. Leading gures expressed a rm belief in severe constraints on structural interference. Language contact and change hickey ws 201012, campus essen language contact language contact is as old as language itself. Gedney collegiate professor of linguistics at the university of. The case of bengali and english in india by tridha chatterjee a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy linguistics in the university of michigan 2015 doctoral committee.
Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors thomason and kaufman, who rescue the study of contact induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. It would appear that language contact situations generally are subject to two often conflicting forcesthe need to achieve communicative efficiency adequate for the purpose of the interaction dynamics of accommodation and the need to preserve a distinct sense of group identity group loyalty. Since then, thomason has dedicated the vast majority of her work to language contact phenomena. Language and culture in northeast india and beyond.
The handbook of language contact raymond hickey download. Michif is considered to be a contact language in the sense of thomason 2001 in that it is a new language which arose in a contact situation and cannot be traced back to a single source 158. As stamp himselfadmits, his paper deals with the problem within the morphological module rather than with the interaction of modules. Weinreich was the first to note that those who learn second languages see linguistic forms from their first and second languages as equal. Contact explanations in linguistics sarah thomason 2. Social and linguistic factors as predictors of contact. Her research specialties include historical linguistics and language contact, with a focus on principles of contact induced language change and contact language. Language contact is extremely common in most deaf communities, which are almost always located within a dominant oral language culture. The handbook of language contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages. Genetic classification and language contact michael noonan 3. About the author sarah grey thomason is professor of linguistics and terrence kaufman is professor of anthropology and.
Language contact, creolization and genetic linguistics. The republic of singapore, an island nation of just 238 square miles, boasts four official languages. Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics pdf free. May 04, 2001 in this survey of the social, political and linguistic consequences of language contact, sarah g. Sarah thomason language in culture 14 towards an understanding of language. Stumps paper deals with very interesting morphological problems in breton and in tigre, a semitic language ofethiopia, and attempts to solve them in a paradigmbased approach to morphology. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The handbook of language contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages an authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of. Sarah thomason, language contact an introduction edinburgh university press 2001. Uriel weinreich languages in contact, 1953 and einar haugen the norwegian language in america, 1953 are commonly regarded as the pioneers of languagecontact studies.
She does not focus on the sociolinguistics of language contact but concentrates on the linguistic results of language contact and the processes by which they come about. In sociolinguistics, language varietyalso called lectis a general term for any distinctive form of a language or linguistic expression. Sarah thomason has also held different positions as a professor, editor or adviser in different institutions. The handbook of language contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology combining new research from a team of globally renowned. The 12 case studies offer testimony against the view that all contact languages are pidgins and creoles. This book contains several new proposals, including an emphasis on the various possibilities that can and cannot result from incomplete learning. Thomason documents the linguistic consequences of language contacts worldwide. Social and linguistic factors as predictors of contact induced change. Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics by thomason, sarah grey. Her research specialties include historical linguistics and language contact, with a focus on principles of contact induced language change and contact language genesis pidgins, creoles, and bilingual mixed languages. It focuses on the study of language contact, language use and language change in accordance with a view of language contact whereby both empirical data the precise description of languages and how they are used and the resulting theoretical elaborations hence the statement and analysis of new problems become the primary engines for. Language contact and language endangerment oxford handbooks. What happens to language proficiency of the speakers in a language contact situation. On the flathead reservation in northwestern montana, the remaining uent speakers of montana salishfewer than 60 tribal members as of 2000, almost all of them eldersspeak salish to each other.
This page intentionally left blank language contact to the salish and pend doreille elders of montana who are work. Thomason, after receiving her phd from yale university, taught slavic linguistics at yale and then general linguistics at the university of pittsburgh and, currently, the university. Sep 03, 2003 thomasons book is an excellent exploration of the linguistics of language contact. Sarah thomason is best known for her work on language contact, historical linguistics, pidgins and creoles, slavic linguistics and typological universals. It refers to a situation in which speakers from two speech communities are in contact with each other.
Sarah thomason and terrence kaufman, language contact, creolization and genetic linguistics university of california press 1988. Contact and grammaticalization bernd heine and tania kuteva 5. What happens to different peoples and to their languages when they come into contact in this survey of. This book surveys situations in which language contact arises and focuses on what happens to the languages themselves.
Sarah grey thomason known as sally is an american scholar of linguistics. An introduction find, read and cite all the research you need. Presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesserknown contact languages, this work aims to contribute to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact. Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics by. Linguists commonly use language variety or simply variety as a cover term for any of the overlapping subcategories of a language, including dialect, register, jargon, and. Jan 20, 2020 language contact is not, of course, a homogeneous phenomenon. Hon avlade magisterexamen i sprakvetenskap vid yale university ar 1965. Ghilad zuckermann, language contact and lexical enrichment in israeli hebrew palgrave macmillan 2003 isbn 14039. Language contact can occur at language borders, between adstratum languages, or as the result of migration, with an intrusive language acting as either a superstratum or a substratum. Sarah sally thomason is the bernard bloch distinguished university professor of linguistics. She realized that language contact was crucial for an understanding of language change.
An introduction find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Thomason and kaufman 1988, aikhenvald 2002, heine and kuteva. Historical linguists have always known that some linguistic changes result from deliberate, conscious actions by speakers. Surveying situations in which language contact arises, she focuses on what happens to the languages themselves. Research on language contact has brought to light a broad range of fascinating transfer phenonema in languages across the world e. Request pdf on jan 1, 2001, sarah grey thomason and others published language contact. Article pdf available in acta linguistica hafniensia. Thomason borjade studera tyska spraket vid stanford och freiburgs universitet. It focuses on the study of language contact, language use and language change in accordance with a view of language contact whereby both empirical data the precise description of languages and how they are used and the resulting theoretical elaborations hence the statement and analysis of new problems become the.
Contact may occur between languages which are genetically related or unrelated, speakers may have similar or vastly different social structures, and patterns of multilingualism may also vary greatly. Language contact in africa and the african diaspora in the americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgincreole genesis. Thomason has already established a reputation in the area of contact linguistics, the sorts of changes that occur when speakers of different languages come into close contact with each other. Donald winford, an introduction to contact linguistics blackwell 2002 isbn 0631212515. Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics sarah grey thomason and terrence kaufman ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors thomason and kaufman, who rescue the study of contact induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The author, professor of linguistics at the university of michigan and an expert on certain native american languages, surveys the phenomenon surrounding two or more languages interacting with each other.
Genetic relationship and the products of contact induced language change 200 8. Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics com terrence kaufman. Thomason university of michigan mainstream historical linguistics came rather late to the knowledge that language contact can, and often does, lead directly to structural linguistic changes. She is a prolific contributor to academic journals and publications specializing in the field of linguistics, as well as a guest lecturer at different universities around the world and a speaker at international conferences. These are the questions that the tutorial will address. Language contact occurs in a variety of phenomena, including language convergence, borrowing and relexification. As we will see, language contact in this substantive sense doesnt require fluent bilingualism or multilingualism, but some communication between speakers of.
Thomason s book is an excellent exploration of the linguistics of language contact. Comparative reconstruction and contact induced language change 206 8. Thomason has worked since 1981 documenting montana salish, as well as with the salish and pend doreille culture committee, compiling a dictionary and materials for the salishpend doreille language program. Mar 16, 2010 the handbook of language contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages. It can also take place between two or more sign languages, and the expected contact phenomena occur. Can language contact give rise to a new language, or lead to language attrition. Monogenesis and the probability of pidginization 194 8.
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