TY - BOOK ID - 22024945 TI - Borrowing : loanwords in the speech community and in the grammar PY - 2017 SN - 9780190256371 0190256370 9780190256388 0190256389 9780190256395 9780190256401 9780190699086 0190256400 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Language and languages KW - Languages in contact KW - Foreign words and phrases KW - Foreign elements KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics. KW - Foreign elements. KW - International words KW - Loan words KW - Loanwords KW - Grammar, Comparative and general. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Languages in contact. KW - Linguistics KW - Historical & Comparative. KW - Psycholinguistics. KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Foreign words and phrases. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Philology KW - Areal linguistics KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Sociolinguistics KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22024945 AB - "Studies of bilingual behavior have been proliferating for decades, yet short shrift has been given to its major manifestation, the incorporation of words from one language into the discourse of another. This volume redresses that imbalance by going straight to the source: bilingual speakers in their social context. Building on more than three decades of original research based on vast quantities of spontaneous performance data and a highly ramified analytical apparatus, Shana Poplack characterizes the phenomenon of lexical borrowing in the speech community and in the grammar, both synchronically and diachronically. In contrast to most other treatments, which deal with the product of borrowing (if they consider it at all), this book examines the process: how speakers go about incorporating foreign items into their bilingual discourse; how they adapt them to recipient-language grammatical structure; how these forms diffuse across speakers and communities; how long they persist in real time; and whether they change over the duration. Attacking some of the most contentious issue in language mixing research empirically, it tests hypotheses about established loanwords, nonce borrowings and code-switches on a wealth of unique datasets on typologically similar and distinct language pairs. A major focus is the detailed analysis of integration: the principal mechanism underlying the borrowing process. Though the shape the borrowed form assumes may be colored by community convention, Poplack shows that the act of transforming donor-language elements into native material is universal. Emphasis on actual speaker behavior coupled with strong standards of proof, including data-driven reports of rates of occurrence, conditioning of variant choice and measures of statistical significance, make Borrowing an indispensable reference on language contact and bilingual behavior. "-- ER -