A Corpus-Driven Approach to Language Contact by Adamou, Evangelia -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Preface Contents List of figures List of Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction

1.1 Contact linguistics 1.2 Language contact in endangered languages 1.3 Corpus-driven analysis of language contact 1.4 Overview of this book

2 Data collection and annotation

2.1 Data collection 2.2 The sample 2.3 Transcription and annotation 2.4 Corpus size 2.5 Corpus accessibility

3 Overall composition of a multilingual corpus

3.1 Background

3.1.1 Corpora with 0‒5% contact words

3.1.1.1 The Ixcatec-Spanish corpora 3.1.1.2 The Balkan Slavic-Greek corpora 3.1.1.3 The Colloquial Upper Sorbian- and the Burgenland Croatian-German corpora

3.1.2 Corpora with 20‒35% contact words

3.1.2.1 The Thrace Romani-Turkish-Greek and the Finnish Romani-Finnish corpora 3.1.2.2 The Molise Slavic-Italian corpora

3.2 Discussion

4 Borrowing or codeswitching?

4.1 Background 4.2 Degree of composition and flagging

4.2.1 The Balkan Slavic Nashta-Greek corpus 4.2.2 The Ixcatec-Spanish corpus 4.2.3 The Thrace Romani-Turkish-Greek corpus 4.2.4 The Finnish Romani-Finnish corpus

4.3 Word classes

4.3.1 The Ixcatec-Spanish corpus 4.3.2 The Balkan Slavic Nashta-Greek corpus 4.3.3 The Romani corpora

4.4 Lexical semantic fields

4.4.1 The Ixcatec-Spanish corpora 4.4.2 The Balkan Slavic-Greek corpora 4.4.3 The Thrace Romani-Turkish-Greek corpus

4.5 Regularity

4.5.1 The Ixcatec-Spanish corpora 4.5.2 The Balkan Slavic-Greek corpus 4.5.3 The Thrace Romani-Turkish-Greek corpus 4.5.4 The Finnish Romani-Finnish corpus

4.6 Discussion

5 Integration strategies

5.1 Background 5.2 Phonetics and phonology 5.3 Noun integration

5.3.1 The Ixcatec-Spanish corpus 5.3.2 The Romani-Turkish-Greek corpus

5.4 Verb integration

5.4.1 Light verb strategy 5.4.2 Indirect insertion 5.4.3 Paradigm transfer

5.5 Discussion

6 Inter-speaker variation

6.1 Background 6.2 Inter-speaker variation for contact words

6.2.1 The Ixcatec-Spanish corpus 6.2.2 The Balkan Slavic Nashta-Greek corpus 6.2.3 The Thrace Romani-Turkish-Greek corpus 6.2.4 The Finnish Romani-Finnish corpus

6.3 Inter-speaker variation for borrowing and codeswitching

6.3.1 The Slavic corpora 6.3.2 The Finnish Romani-Finnish corpus

6.4 Inter-speaker variation for borrowed nouns and verbs

6.4.1 The Ixcatec-Spanish corpus 6.4.2 The Slavic corpora 6.4.3 The Romani corpora

6.5 Discussion

7 Pattern replication

7.1 Background 7.2 The Balkan Slavic Nashta-Greek corpus

7.2.1 TMA markers 7.2.2 Phonetics 7.2.3 Articles

7.3 The Ixcatec-Spanish corpus

7.3.1 Articles 7.3.2 Clause-linking 7.3.3 Frames of reference 7.3.4 Word order in verbal clauses

7.4 The Thrace Romani-Turkish-Greek corpus

7.4.1 Prosody in wh- and polar questions 7.4.2 Articles 7.4.3 Verb morphology 7.4.4 Word order in noun phrases

7.5 Discussion

8 Information structure

8.1 Background 8.2 The Ixcatec-Spanish corpus

8.2.1 Prosody 8.2.2 Word order 8.2.3 Morphology

8.3 The Thrace Romani-Turkish-Greek corpus

8.3.1 Prosody 8.3.2 Word order 8.3.3 Morphology

8.4 Discussion

9 Contact settings

9.1 Background 9.2 The Balkan Slavic-Greek communities

9.2.1 Hrisa 9.2.2 Liti

9.3 The Ixcatec-Spanish community 9.4 The Thrace Romani-Turkish-Greek community 200 9.5 Discussion

9.5.1 An active bilingual community 9.5.2 Prescriptive attitudes and institutional support 9.5.3 Past contact settings

10 Concluding remarks

10.1 A scale of language mixing 10.2 Extra layers for a refined scale of language mixing 10.3 Types of contact phenomena and types of social settings 10.4 For a corpus-driven approach to language contact

References Index of authors Index of subjects and languages Endnotes

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