Book contents
- English as a Contact Language
- Series page
- English as a Contact Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: nothing but a contact language . . .
- 2 The role of contact in English syntactic change in the Old and Middle English periods
- 3 Multilingualism and code-switching as mechanisms of contact-induced lexical change in late Middle English
- 4 The contact origins ofStandard English
- 5 English as a contact language in the British Isles
- 6 English as a contact language in Ireland and Scotland
- 7 The contact dynamics of socioethnic varieties in North America
- 8 English as a contact language: the “New Englishes”
- 9 English as a contact language: lesser-known varieties
- 10 The role of mundanemobility and contact in dialect death and dialect birth
- 11 The diversification of English:old, new and emerging epicentres
- 12 Driving forces in English contact linguistics
- 13 Substrate influence and universals in the emergence of contact Englishes: re-evaluating the evidence
- 14 Transfer and contact in migrant and multiethnic communities: the conversational historicalbe+-ingpresent in South African IndianEnglish
- 15 English as a contact language: the role of children and adolescents
- 16 Innovation and contact: the role of adults (and children)
- 17 Accelerator or inhibitor? On the role of substrateinfluence ininterlanguage development
- 18 Speculating on the future of English as a contact language
- Notes
- References
- Index
12 - Driving forces in English contact linguistics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
Book contents
- English as a Contact Language
- Series page
- English as a Contact Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: nothing but a contact language . . .
- 2 The role of contact in English syntactic change in the Old and Middle English periods
- 3 Multilingualism and code-switching as mechanisms of contact-induced lexical change in late Middle English
- 4 The contact origins ofStandard English
- 5 English as a contact language in the British Isles
- 6 English as a contact language in Ireland and Scotland
- 7 The contact dynamics of socioethnic varieties in North America
- 8 English as a contact language: the “New Englishes”
- 9 English as a contact language: lesser-known varieties
- 10 The role of mundanemobility and contact in dialect death and dialect birth
- 11 The diversification of English:old, new and emerging epicentres
- 12 Driving forces in English contact linguistics
- 13 Substrate influence and universals in the emergence of contact Englishes: re-evaluating the evidence
- 14 Transfer and contact in migrant and multiethnic communities: the conversational historicalbe+-ingpresent in South African IndianEnglish
- 15 English as a contact language: the role of children and adolescents
- 16 Innovation and contact: the role of adults (and children)
- 17 Accelerator or inhibitor? On the role of substrateinfluence ininterlanguage development
- 18 Speculating on the future of English as a contact language
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- English as a Contact Language , pp. 204 - 221Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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