LIN 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Reduplication, Lexifier, Language Convergence
8 Nov 2017
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How language influences society and vise versa. It is possible that languages come into contact. Language contact : involves the contact of two or more distinct languages either indirectly (writing, media, education) or directly (social contact) forced) Indirect: spread of english across the globe. Direct: colonization, (slave) trade, migration, wars, other forms of contact (often. Variation in intensity (duration) of contact, kind of contact, and outcomes of the contact. A simplified language that develops in contact situations in which speakers previously shared no common language. Why not just pick one of the languages. Grammarless- as with all languages, pidgins have some rules. A native language- no one speaks pidgin as his/her first language. Can develop in different ways after crystallization. Pre-pidgin jargon : little or no consistent grammar, lots of. Abrupt creation, typically limited to specific social situation (like trade); have reduced vocab and grammar. Super strate = lexifier (vocab comes from it) language.
