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  • Category: Linguistics
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£83.00

Stability and Divergence in Language Contact Factors and Mechanisms Hardbound

by Braunmuller / Hoder/ Kuhl Published by John Benjamins

Published 2014.

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, both despite of language contact and as its direct outcome, covering a range of different language contact situations including standard and non-standard varieties.

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