In:Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Juliane House
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism 8] 2009
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 12 November 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/hsm.8.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction
Part I. Challenges to accepted views of convergence and divergence in language contact situations
Divergence, convergence, contact: Challenges for the genealogical classification of languages
Increases in complexity as a result of language contact
Converging genetically related languages: Endstation code mixing?
Part II. Convergence and divergence in different varieties in oral and written discourse
Converging languages, diverging varieties: Innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish
Converging verbal phrases in related languages: A case study from Faro-Danish and Danish-German language contact situations
Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation
On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations
Part III. Phonological processes of variation and change in bilingual individuals
Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish
Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German, monolingual Spanish and bilingual German-Spanish children
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