Contact, typology and the speaker: the essentials of language  

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Ansaldo, Umberto

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 26 no. 5 (2004), page 485-494.
Topik: Language contact and change; Southeast Asia; Typology; Multilingualism; Acquisition
Fulltext: Ansaldo_Umberto, p. 485-494.pdf (172.71KB)

Isi artikel

This paper focuses on some of the theoretical assumptions presented in Enfield, 2003 (Review of
Enfield, N.J., 2003. Linguistic Epidemiology: Semantics and grammar of language contact in mainland Southeast Asia. Routledge Curzon, London and New York, pp. xv + 397) and their consequences for contemporary linguistic theory. In particular, I revisit three fundamental dimensions underlying language contact: multilingual practices of speech communities, modes of transmission and typological diversity. These three dimensions, I argue, are not only the reasons for contact to occur but the fundamental driving forces behind language change (and variation) at large. In this view, the dichotomy typically presented as
contact-induced or
external vs.
normal or
internal change needs to be significantly revised, if not dissolved, since a non-idealized view of language change as the one advocated by Enfield presents us with a reality in which the role of contact can hardly ever be overlooked.

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