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Language Contact as Bilingual Contrast among Bai Language Users in Jianchuan County, China.
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Bilingualism, Language Contact and Change: The Case of Bengali and English in India.
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This dissertation examines the nature of bidirectional influences in Bengali and English in the understudied bi/multilingual setting of West Bengal, India. Close contact between the two languages has resulted in extensive bilingualism in a section of the population. In order to get a better understanding of language change and development in this community, the following research questions are investigated: i) What types of contact effects are observable in Bengali today? ii) Which grammatical features in bilingual Bengali-English have changed under contact and which ones result from language-internal developments? iii) How can we ascertain that new properties found in bilingual Bengali-English are contact-induced? iv) What are the grammatical differences between monolingual and bilingual Bengali? These questions are addressed from both diachronic and synchronic standpoints. Two corpora of spoken monolingual and bilingual Bengali, collected and compiled through fieldwork in India, were compared with nineteenth-century Bengali plays for a set of linguistic features, following the methodology of Thomason (2001). Further, a corpus of English speech was collected from Bengali-English bilinguals and analyzed to evaluate what types of changes occurred in English. This investigation has also been complemented with a quantitative analysis of the distribution of linguistic features in the corpora, following a variationist methodology (Poplack & Levey 2010). The findings indicate that English influence has led to extensive code-switching, heavy lexical borrowing in Bengali, and morphosyntactic changes in the domain of bilingual Bengali-English complex verbs, formed with English nouns or verbs and the ‘do’ verb from Bengali. Change was also identified in Bengali equational sentences, where a new meaning and position of the hocche ‘be’ verb, which was unattested in the nineteenth-century Bengali plays, were argued to emerge from multiple causation. The English data reveals slight divergences in the use of articles and progressive forms, which have resulted partially from interference from Bengali, but are mostly conditioned by bilingual speakers’ different proficiency levels in English. These findings provide evidence for overall stability in the grammar of both languages (specifically for the subject pool that was tested in this dissertation), despite the presence of extensive bilingualism in the community. ; PhD ; Linguistics ; University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/113302/1/tridha_1.pdf
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bilingualism; contact-induced language change; Humanities; Linguistics
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URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113302
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Ci Arrangiamo: Negotiating Linguistic Shift-Maintenance in an Italian- Canadian Community.
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Transferències lèxiques i actituds lingüístiques en el castellà de València
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Structural effects of English-German language contact in translation on concessive constructions in business articles
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Gramáticas castellanas impresas en Cataluña entre 1820 y 1875: una aproximación a través de sus paratextos
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Una lengua, una visión: el pensamiento liberal sobre la educación lingüística en España durante el Trienio Constitucional: el nuevo plan de enseñanza mútua
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As formas tipo 'tivo' e o contacto lingüístico cos romances centrais
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Contacto galego-castelán e cambio no léxico do corpo humano
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Syntactic complexity and language contact: A corpus-based study of relative clauses in British English and Indian English
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Dialectal, historical and sociolinguistic aspects of Galician intonation ; Aspectos dialectales, históricos y sociolingüísticos de la entonación gallega
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La figura del intérprete en los primeros contactos sino-hispánicos (siglo XVI) / The image of the interpreter in the first Sino-Spanish contacts (16th century)
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In: Sinologia Hispanica, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-38
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Análisis acústico del seseo vasco en los datos del Archivo del Patrimonio Inmaterial de Navarra
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Euskara eta erdara, txandaketak eta kalkoak Lehen Hezkuntzako eskolako haurren produkzioan ; Euskera y castellano, cambios y calcos en las producciones de los niños en Educación Primaria
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Information-seeking question intonation in Basque Spanish and its correlation with degree of contact and language attitudes
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Asimetrías gramaticales asociadas a la animacidad en la lengua vasca: una perspectiva tipológica ; Animacy-based grammatical asymmetries in Basque: a typological perspective
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A periodização da história sociolinguística do Brasil
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In: DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, Vol 33, Iss 2, Pp 347-382
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Práticas sociais entre línguas em contato: os empréstimos linguísticos do português à Libras
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In: Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, Vol 14, Iss 4, Pp 1095-1120
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