
Ebook: Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms
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- Series: Studies in Language Variation 16
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Language: English
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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.
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