[Linganth] Edited volume - Contact, Structure, Change

[Babel, Anna M.]

We are delighted to announce the publication of the edited volume Contact, Structure, and Change: A Festschrift in honor of Sarah G. Thomason, edited by Anna M. Babel and Mark A. Sicoli. The volume includes a preface by Pam Beddor & Robin Queen and a wonderful group of papers by Carmel O'Shannessy, Marlyse Baptista, Anna Fenyvesi, Marianne Mithun, Nico Baier, Lucy Thomason, Lyle Campbell, Alan Vogel, Eric Campbell, and the late Pieter Muysken.

The volume is open-access digital at the following link and print copies may be ordered for $24.95.
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Contact, Structure, and Change addresses the classic problem of how and why languages change over time through the lens of two uniquely productive and challenging perspectives: the study of language contact and the study of Indigenous American languages. Each chapter in the volume draws from a distinct theoretical positioning, ranging from documentation and description, to theoretical syntax, to creole languages and sociolinguistics. This volume acts as a Festschrift honoring Sarah G. Thomason, a long-time professor at the University of Michigan, whose career spans the disciplines of historical linguistics, contact linguistics, and Native American studies. This conversation among distinguished scholars who have been influenced by Thomason extends and in some cases refracts the questions her work addresses through a collection of studies that speak to the enduring puzzles of language change.


Preface ..................................................................................................................... vii

Robin Queen and Patrice Speeter Beddor

Chapter 1 Deliberate Decisions and Unintended

Consequences: Ratifying Nonspeakers through Code

Alternation in Child-Directed Speech .............................................. 1

Mark A. Sicoli

Chapter 2 Code-Switching as a Way of Speaking—From

Language Shift to Language Maintenance .................................... 35

Carmel O’Shannessy

Chapter 3 Dynamics of Language Contact: On Similarities,

Divergences, and Innovations in the Emergence of

Creole Languages ............................................................................. 65

Marlyse Baptista

Chapter 4 Contact-Induced Change in the Inflectional

Systems of Immigrant Languages in the United States:

Differential Change in Noun and Verb Inflection .....................97

Anna Fenyvesi

vi Contents

Chapter 5 The “Why” of Social Motivations for Language

Contact .............................................................................................. 131

Anna M. Babel

Chapter 6 Typology, Contact, and Explanation: The

Surprising Wappo Case ................................................................. 165

Marianne Mithun

Chapter 7 Oblique Arguments in Montana Salish:

Separating Agreement and Licensing .........................................189

Nico Baier

Chapter 8 ‘Gone Now Were the Days When All They Had

to Eat Was Poor Food’: Temporal Participles

in Meskwaki ...................................................................................... 211

Lucy G. Thomason

Chapter 9 Lexical Suffixes in Nivaclé and Their Implications ....... 281

Lyle Campbell

Chapter 10 An Impersonal Construction in Jarawara? ....................321

Alan Vogel

Chapter 11 On Zapotecan Glottal Stop, and Where (Not) to

Reconstruct It .................................................................................... 353

Eric W. Campbell

Chapter 12 The Early Stages of Ecuadorian Quechua ..................... 387

Pieter Muysken


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