LIN 1256: Advanced Language Variation & Change
Contact, Context and Corpora
Reading for the course
A preliminary list of assigned readings is provided here. Additional recommended readings are included below.
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Assigned readings
Auger,
Julie & Anne-José Villeneuve. 2008. Ne deletion
in Picard and in regional French: Evidence for distinct grammars .
In M. Meyerhoff & N. Nagy, eds.
Social Lives
in Language --
Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities. John
Benjamins: Amsterdam. 223–247.
Blondeau, Hélène & Naomi Nagy.
2008. Subordinate clause marking in Montreal Anglophone French and English. In
M. Meyerhoff & N. Nagy, eds. Social Lives
in Language--
Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities. John
Benjamins: Amsterdam. 273–313.
Bondi, Marina, Silvia Cacchiani & Giuseppe
Palumbo. 2011. Introduction. Rassegna
Italiana di Linguistica Applicata 1-2:7-12.
Buchstaller, Isabelle & Alex D'Arcy. 2009. Localized
globalization: A multi-local, multivariate investigation of
quotative
be like. Journal
of Sociolinguistics 13.3:291–331.
DiPaolo, Marianna & Malcah Yaeger-Dror. 2010.
Sociophonetics: A Student’s Guide. Routledge, Ch. 2, 15, 16.
Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola & Heli
Paulasto. 2009. Vernacular universals and language contact: An overview. In Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts:
Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond. London: Routledge. 1-16.
Gries, Stephan. 2009. What
is Corpus Linguistics? Language
and Linguistics Compass 3.5: 1225–1241.
10.1111/j.1749-818x.2009.00149.x
Lynch, Andrew. 2011. A sociolinguistic analysis of final /s/ in Miami Cuban Spanish. Language Sciences 31:766–790.
Matras, Yaron. 2009. Language Contact. Cambridge. §6.2 Generalisations on borrowing. and §8.4 Mechanisms of contact-induced
change in phonology.
McEnery, Tony & Andrew Hardie. 2012. Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Ch. 2.
Noonan, Michael. 2008. Contact-induced change: The
case of the Tamangic languages. In P. Siemund & N. Kintana, eds. Language Contact and Contact Languages.
John Benjamins. 81-106.
Polinsky, Maria. 1995. Cross-linguistic parallels in
language loss. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 14:1-2: 87-123.
Poplack, Shana, Lauren Zentz & Nathalie Dion.
2012. Phrase-final prepositions in Quebec French: An empirical study of
contact, code-switching and resistance to convergence. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition 15.2:203-225.
Schleef, Eric & Miriam Meyerhoff. 2010.
Sociolinguistic methods for data collection and interpretation. In M. Meyerhoff
& E. Schleef, eds. The Routledge
Sociolinguistics Reader. London: Routledge. 1-26.
Siemund, Peter & Noemi Kintana. 2008.
Introduction. Language Contact and Contact Languages. John Benjamins.
3-14.
Torres Cacoullos, Rena & Catherine E. Travis.
2010. Variable yo expression in New Mexico: English influence? In Spanish of the
Southwest: A language in
transition. Susana Rivera-Mills & Daniel Villa (eds.). Frankfurt:
Iberoamericana/Vervuert. 185-206.
Recommended additional reads
Comrie, Bernard. 2008. Inflectional morphology and
language contact, with special reference to mixed languages. In P. Siemund & N. Kintana, eds. Language Contact and Contact Languages. John Benjamins.
15-32.
Hay, Jennifer & Margaret Maclagan. 2010. Transcription. In DiPaolo, Marianna & Malcah Yaeger-Dror. 2010. Sociophonetics: A Student’s Guide. Routledge. 36-45.
Heine, Bernd & Tania Kuteva. 2005. Language
Contact and Grammatical Change. Cambridge University Press. 68-70.
Jannedy, Stefanie & Jennifer Hay. 2006.
Modelling sociophonetic variation. Journal of Phonetics. Introduction.
Johanson, Lars. 2008. Copying, conventionalization,
grammaticalization. In P. Siemund & N. Kintana, eds. Language Contact and
Contact Languages. John Benjamins. 61-80.
Johnson, Daniel Ezra. 2009. Getting off the GoldVarb standard: Introducing Rbrul for mixed-effects variable rule analysis. Language and Linguistic Compass 3.1:359-383. 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2008.00108.x
Poplack, Shana, Lauren Zentz & Nathalie Dion.
2012. What counts as (contact-induced) change. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition 15.2:227-254.
Roberge, Yves. 2012. On the distinction
betweenpreposition stranding and orphan prepositions. Bilingualism:
Language & Cognition 15.2:243-246.
Tagliamonte, Sali. 2007. Quantitative Analysis. In
R. Bayley & C. Lucas. Sociolinguistic
Variation: Theories, Methods, & Applications. Cambridge Univ. Press.
190-202.
Tamminga, Meredith. 2011. Getting started with Rbrul for the completely clueless: A basic illustrated guide to the quantitative analysis of categorical linguistic variables. University of Pennsylvania ms.
Thomason, Sarah & Terrence Kaufman. 1988. Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics. Berkeley: University
of California Press.
Thomason, Sarah. 2001a. Contact-induced typological
change. In Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König, Wulf Oesterreicher, and Wolfgang
Raible, eds., Language typology and language universals, Sprachtypologie und
sprachliche Universalien: An international handbook. Berlin & New York:
Walter de Gruyter. 1640-1648.
Thomason, Sarah. 2001b. Contact languages. In
Rajend Mesthrie and R.E. Asher, eds. Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics.Oxford: Elsevier Science. 461-464.
Torres Cacoullos, Rena. 2012. A milestone study:
Structured variabiliy as the key to unraveling (contact-induced) language
change. Bilingualism: Language &
Cognition 15.2:233-236.
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September 12, 2012
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