Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl
[Studies in Language Variation, 16] 2014. vi, 298 pp.
Karoline Kühl
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karoline Kühl plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2015 Faroe Danish: An unknown variety Language Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013, Torgersen, Eivind, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland (eds.), pp. 157–168 | Article
This chapter provides a descriptive profile of Faroe Danish, the variety of Danish spoken and written on the Faroe Islands. Faroe Danish is not only a variety unknown to most linguists but also unknown to the speakers of Faroe Danish themselves. This paper provides a communicative profile and a… read more
2014 Linguistic stability and divergence: An extended perspective on language contact Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms, Braunmüller, Kurt, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl (eds.), pp. 13–38 | Article
In contrast to the amount of research that has been performed on linguistic
convergence in language contact, this paper focuses on the possibility of linguistic
systems remaining stable, or even diverging, in language contact settings. It
carves out multiple relevant mechanisms and factors that… read more
2012 Ad hoc contact phenomena or established features of a contact variety? Evidence from corpus analysis Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis, Schmidt, Thomas and Kai Wörner (eds.), pp. 199–214 | Article
This contribution deals with the possibilities of distinguishing features of an established contact variety from singly occurring, transient elements using a corpus-based approach. It emphasizes the potential that lies in including different language registers (informal spoken language and formal… read more
2011 Features of writtenness transferred: Faroe-Danish language of distance Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives, Kranich, Svenja, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 183–206 | Article
This paper emphasizes language contact situations in general as an origin of hybrid features of writtenness. Furthermore it stresses the necessity of taking into account the medial-conceptional differences between languages of distance (prototypically written) and languages of proximity… read more
2009 Converging verbal phrases in related languages: A case study from Faro-Danish and Danish-German language contact situations Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations, Braunmüller, Kurt and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 101–124 | Article
The paper deals with Danish-Faroese and Danish-German language contact, in particular Faro-Danish and Danish-German verb phrases that are constructed under heavy influence of Faroese and German, respectively. The theoretical framework is the Abstract Level Model (2002) as well as further… read more