Contact, Convergence, and Typology

Yaron Matras

doi:10.1002/9781444318159.ch3

Contact, Convergence, and Typology

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Language Contact
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	66-85
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	9781405175807
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444318159.ch3
State	Published - 16 Mar 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

"balanced" or "fluent" bilinguals, or "secondary," "late," or "partial" bilinguals
"language convergence," similarities between two languages, lexical, phonological, typological
Approach to language contact - based on a view of language as the practice of communicative interaction
Contact phenomena - as enabling rather than as interfering with communicative activity
Contact, convergence, and typology
Contact-induced language change
Convergence and typological change
Language contact phenomena or "borrowings"
Pattern replication and pivot matching
Typological-universalist approach - to structural borrowing in language contact situations

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences
General Arts and Humanities

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