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Contact, Structure, and Change: A Festschrift in Honor of Sarah G. Thomason

Edited by Anna M. Babel and Mark A. Sicoli
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Contact, Structure, and Change addresses the classic problem of how and why languages change over time through the lens of two uniquely productive and challenging perspectives: the study of language contact and the study of Indigenous American languages. Each chapter in the volume draws from a distinct theoretical positioning, ranging from documentation and description, to theoretical syntax, to creole languages and sociolinguistics. This volume acts as a Festschrift honoring Sarah G. Thomason, a long-time professor at the University of Michigan, whose career spans the disciplines of historical linguistics, contact linguistics, and Native American studies. This conversation among distinguished scholars who have been influenced by Thomason extends and in some cases refracts the questions her work addresses through a collection of studies that speak to the enduring puzzles of language change.
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  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 Deliberate Decisions and Unintended Consequences: Ratifying Nonspeakers through Code Alternation in Child-Directed Speech
  • Chapter 2 Code-Switching as a Way of Speaking—From Language Shift to Language Maintenance
  • Chapter 3 Dynamics of Language Contact: On Similarities, Divergences, and Innovations in the Emergence of Creole Languages
  • Chapter 4 Contact-Induced Change in the Inflectional Systems of Immigrant Languages in the United States: Differential Change in Noun and Verb Inflection
  • Chapter 5 The “Why” of Social Motivations for Language Contact
  • Chapter 6 Typology, Contact, and Explanation: The Surprising Wappo Case
  • Chapter 7 Oblique Arguments in Montana Salish: Separating Agreement and Licensing
  • Chapter 8 ‘Gone Now Were the Days When All They Had to Eat Was Poor Food’: Temporal Participles in Meskwaki
  • Chapter 9 Lexical Suffixes in Nivaclé and Their Implications
  • Chapter 10 An Impersonal Construction in Jarawara?
  • Chapter 11 On Zapotecan Glottal Stop, and Where (Not) to Reconstruct It
  • Chapter 12 The Early Stages of Ecuadorian Quechua
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Published: 2021
Publisher: Maize Books
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-60785-608-5 (ebook)
  • 978-1-60785-609-2 (open access)
  • 978-1-60785-607-8 (paper)
Subject
  • LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics/Historical & Comparative
  • LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics/General
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