
Title:
Cognitive Contact Linguistics : Placing Usage, Meaning and Mind at the Core of Contact-Induced Variation and Change
Author:
Backus, Ad, contributor.
ISBN:
9783110619430
Physical Description:
1 online resource (VI, 342 p.)
Series:
Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 62
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Placing usage, meaning and mind at the core of contact-induced variation and change -- Part I: Conceptual foundations and categorization principles in contact-induced change -- 1. Reconceptualizing language contact phenomena as cognitive processes -- 2. English-Estonian code-copying in blogs: Combining a contact linguistic and cognitive approach -- 3. Reanalysis in language contact: Perceptive ambiguity, salience, and catachrestic reinterpretation -- 4. When third-wave sociolinguistics and prototype analysis meet: The social meaning of sibilant palatalization in a Flemish Urban Vernacular -- Part II: Associating concepts: Metaphors and cultural models in contact -- 5. Notions of Containment and Support in Irish English: Implications of language contact on the cognition of space -- 6. Conceptual metaphors as contact phenomena? The influence of local concepts on source and target domain -- 7. Cultural models in contact: Revealing attitudes toward regional varieties of Italian with Vector Space Models -- Part III: Construction Grammar: Contact in and through more and less schematic form-meaning pairs -- 8. Language alternation and the state-event contrast: A case-study of Dutch-Turkish and Dutch-Moroccan heritage speakers -- 9. Partially schematic constructions as engines of development: Evidence from German-English bilingual acquisition -- 10. Constructional renovation: The role of French legal language in the survival of the nominative-and-infinitive in Dutch -- Index
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