28.4135, Books: Dynamics of Ambon Malay: Moro

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Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 18:13:27
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Dynamics of Ambon Malay: Moro

 


Title: Dynamics of Ambon Malay 
Subtitle: Comparing Ambon and the Netherlands 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/dynamics-of-ambon-malay-comparing-ambon-and-the-netherlands 


Author: Francesca Romana Moro

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932045 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

As the result of migration, many languages have a homeland variety and one or
more so-called heritage varieties spoken in the countries of migration, often
in Europe, North America, or Australia. One of these is Ambon Malay, a
language originally spoken in the Central Moluccas, Indonesia, but also spoken
as a heritage language in the Netherlands. 

When one language is spoken alongside another one, contact-induced change is
expected to occur. This change inevitably leads a heritage language to diverge
from its homeland counterpart and to converge toward the socially dominant
language. This dissertation explores contact-induced change in heritage Ambon
Malay, as spoken by Dutch-Ambon Malay bilinguals. In order to investigate
divergence and convergence, the present study systematically compares heritage
Ambon Malay to its homeland variety, to Dutch, and to the language of first
generation speakers in the Netherlands. The comparison, both quantitative and
qualitative, is based on semi-spontaneous speech data and it focuses on four
grammatical areas: nominal modification, aspect marking, give-constructions
and resultative constructions.

The most pervasive type of contact-induced change encountered in heritage
Ambon Malay is ‘change in frequency’, namely a change in preference for one
construction over another equally possible construction when the preferred
construction is shared with Dutch. As a result, heritage Ambon Malay grammar
is converging toward Dutch and diverging from the homeland variety. Beside
Dutch influence, divergence from the homeland variety is also accounted for by
the quantitatively and qualitatively different language input that heritage
speakers have received in the county of migration.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Malay, Ambonese (abs)


Written In: English  (eng)

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