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Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties referred to as Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana. It illustrates how interactional sociolinguistic, anthropological linguistic, discourse analytical and quantitative sociolinguistic approaches can be integrated with structural approaches to language in order to resolve rarely discussed questions systematically (what are the outlines of the community, who is a rightful speaker, what speech should be documented) that frequently crop up in projects of language documentation in multilingual contexts. The authors argue that comprehensively documenting complex linguistic phenomena requires taking into account the views of all local social actors (native and non-native speakers, institutions, linguists, non-speakers, etc.), applying a range of complementary data collection and analysis methods and putting issues of ideology, variation, language contact and interaction centre stage. This book will be welcomed by researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, fieldwork studies, language documentation and language variation and change.

Creolan languages --- Grammar --- French Guiana --- Sranan language --- Grammar, Historical --- Languages --- Sranan (langue) --- Grammaire historique --- Grammar, Historical. --- Languages. --- Grammaire historique. --- Sranantonga language --- Taki-Taki language --- Creole dialects, English --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Sranan language - Grammar, Historical --- Sranan language - French Guiana --- French Guiana - Languages

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In Pomak (Greece), we attest to the loss of a morphologically overt expression of mediate information, passing through a stage of variation (determined by syntactic, semantic, and discursive criteria). This change takes place in a trilingual setting where the main contact language (Greek) has no grammaticalized form to express mediate information, while the second contact language (Turkish), has a verbal past paradigm specialized for evidentiality. This phenomenon is analyzed within a multiple causation approach in which language contact acts as a catalyst.

Languages in contact. --- Language and languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Sociolinguistics. --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Morphosyntactic features --- Morphosyntax --- Areal linguistics --- Variation. --- Morphosyntax. --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Morphology --- Syntax --- Philology

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In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a unique multidisciplinary perspective on a multilingual society in the Caribbean and Guianan sphere. Breaking away from the view of bounded ethnicity, the authors address central theoretical issues of multilingual and multicultural societies including ethnicity as a social distinction, identity as the shifting construction of the self and others, and the role of language therein. They discuss the impact of contact and mobilities on language maintenance, expansion and change. Language, mobility and identity in Suriname are observed through the lens of the actors themselves, from the ever-mobile Amerindians and Maroons on the periphery of land and society through expanding urban societies enhanced by recent migration from Haiti, Brazil and China.

Creole dialects --- Languages in contact --- Linguistic change --- Sociolinguistics --- Suriname --- Languages. --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Historical linguistics --- Areal linguistics --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages --- Creole dialects. --- Language and languages. --- Languages in contact. --- Linguistic change. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Suriname. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Dutch Guiana --- Nederlandisch Guyana --- Nederlandsch Guyana --- Netherland Guiana --- Netherlands Guiana --- Orandaryō Giana --- Ranryō Giana --- Republic of Suriname --- Republiek Suriname --- Surinaam --- Surinam --- Sūrīnāma --- Surinamu --- surinam --- Carib language --- Chinese language --- Dutch language --- Ethnic group --- French Guiana --- Netherlands --- Paramaribo --- Sranan Tongo

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