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Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms (Studies in Language Variation) by Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder, Karoline Kühl (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms (Studies in Language Variation) about?
Convergence, i.e. the increase of inter-systemic similarities, is usually considered the default development in language contact situations. This volume focuses on the other logical possibilities of diachronic development, namely stability and divergence – two well-attested, but under-researched phenomena. The contributions investigate the sociolinguistic and structural factors and mechanisms that lead to or at least reinforce both types of non-convergence, despite of language contact. The contributions cover a wide range of language contact situations, including standard and non-standard varieties.
Who reads Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms (Studies in Language Variation)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder, Karoline Kühl (eds.)
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789027269553
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Linguistics, Sociology
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