15.527, Books: Sociolinguistics: Holm

Mon Feb 9 20:05:00 UTC 2004

LINGUIST List:  Vol-15-527. Mon Feb 9 2004. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 15.527, Books: Sociolinguistics: Holm

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org):
	Sheila Collberg, U. of Arizona
	Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona

Home Page:  http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Neil Salmond <neil at linguistlist.org>
 ==========================================================================
Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are
available at the end of this issue.

=================================Directory=================================

1)
Date:  Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:36:33 +0000
From:  jreid at cup.org
Subject:  Languages in Contact: Holm

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:36:33 +0000
From:  jreid at cup.org
Subject:  Languages in Contact: Holm

Title: Languages in Contact
Subtitle: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cup.org

Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521430518

Author: John Holm

Hardback: ISBN: 0521430518, Pages: 200, Price:  U.K. Â£: 40
Hardback: ISBN: 0521430518, Pages: 200, Price:  U.S. $: 65

Abstract:

There is widespread agreement that certain non-creole language
varieties are structurally quite different from the European languages
out of which they grew; however, until now, linguists have found
difficulty in accounting for either their genesis or their synchronic
structure. This study argues that the transmission of source languages
from native to non-native speakers led to 'partial restructuring',
whereby some of the source languages' morphosyntax was retained, but a
significant number of substrate and interlanguage features were also
introduced. Comparing languages such as African-American English,
Afrikaans and Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese, John Holm identifies
the linguistic processes that lead to partial restructuring, bringing
into focus a key span on the continuum of contact-induced language
change which has not previously been analysed. Informed by the first
systematic comparison of the social and linguistic facts in the
development of these languages, this book will be welcomed by students
of contact linguistics, sociolinguistics and anthropology.

1. Language contact and partial restructuring
2. Social factors in partial restructuring
3. The verb phrase
4. The noun phrase
5. The structure of clauses
6. Conclusions.

Lingfield(s):	Anthropological Linguistics
		Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

     See this book announcement on our website:
	 http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=7841

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Blackwell Publishing
		http://www.blackwellpublishing.com	

	Cambridge University Press
		http://www.cup.org	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Elsevier Ltd.
		http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics	

	Equinox Publishing Ltd.
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/	

	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Kluwer Academic Publishers
		http://www.wkap.nl/	

	Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/	

	Mouton de Gruyter
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Oxford University Press
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
		http://www.routledge.com/	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Anthropological Linguistics
		http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/

	Cascadilla Press
		http://www.cascadilla.com/

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/

	Kingston Press Ltd
		http://www.kingstonpress.com/

	Multilingual Matters
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

	Palgrave Macmillan
		http://www.palgrave.com

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp

	Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-15-527