Conf=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9rence_?=du Professeur Malcolm ROSS.

[Isabelle Bril]

  Conférence du Professeur /Malcolm ROSS./ (Australian National 
University and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

*Lundi 28 octobre 2013, Maison de la Recherche de Paris III,*

*  4 rue des Irlandais, salle de conférence 10h - 12H
*

'Typologising contact-induced changes in grammatical constructions'

There is now an extensive literature on contact-induced change in 
grammatical (i.e. morphosyntactic) constructions. Since Harris & 
Campbell's (1995) and Prince's (1998) seminal work on the topic, a 
number of attempts have been made to typologise contact-induced 
morphosyntactic changes (Johanson 2002, Aikhenvald 2003, Sakel & Matras 
2008). All of these are useful in different ways. This talk proposes yet 
another typology, based on the degree to which and manner in which a 
construction is altered as a result of contact. Contact-induced changes 
are often classified according to whether they are a result of bilingual 
copying or as a result of rapid language shift entailing incomplete 
second-language learning. Although the two categories of contact can 
often be distinguished on the basis of their linguistic outcomes, I 
suggest that their morphosyntactic outcomes are generally 
indistinguishable and offer a reason for this. In the belief that 
progress in contact linguistics can only be made by examining cases 
where we have a good understanding of (i) the changes that have 
occurred, (ii) the sociolinguistic circumstances of contact, and (iii) 
the language from which a construction has been 'copied', illustrations 
of contact-induced morphosyntactic change will be offered from 
Colloquial Upper Sorbian (Scholze) and Irish English (Harris 1991, 
Hickey 2010).

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