SPHR 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Word Formation, Reduplication, Consonant Cluster
28 Dec 2016
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The contact of 2 or more distinct languages either indirectly through written and other media or directly through societal contact between speakers. Can be described in terms of their influence on the linguistic systems, the societal relationships of the speakers in contact, and the linguistic outcome of the contact. Such contact may be caused by trade, conquest, migration, or other factors. Ex: expansion of roman empire throughout europe latin replaced local languages. Ex: migration of mexicans, cubans, latin americans to us language contact between speakers of spanish and english. The adoption by one language of linguistic elements from another language. Lexical: vocab & function words tend not to be borrowed; Borrowing words or phrases; loans/loanwords; pronunciation adapted to english; core. Loan translations or calques: word for word translations. Adoption of new sounds or phonological rules; often comes about thru word borrowing. Morphological: which then become part of morphological system. Adoption of morphological elements or patterns; words often borrowed with affixes.
