Cognitive Contact Linguistics: Placing Usage, Meaning and Mind at the Core of Contact-Induced Variation and Change

by Eline Zenner (Editor), Ad Backus (Editor), Esme Winter-Froemel (Editor)

Overview

This volume serves to illustrate the promising insights to be gained when cross-fertilizing Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics, which each hold crucial ingredients to an encompassing study of contact-induced variation and change.

Combining the study of the individual mind with the study of shared context, bridging research on experience and perspective with research on variation and change, and tackling the methodological complexities that this empirical approach to mental categorization entails, help us determine how the meaningful units that make up language are categorized and structured in the bi- and multilingual mind and, by extension, in any human mind.

Together, the ten papers in this volume reveal the complexities of the interaction between usage, meaning and mind in contact-induced variation and change, which we hope will inspire future research exploring the possibilities of the cross-fertilization we have labeled Cognitive Contact Linguistics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110616842
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	11/19/2018
Series:	Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , #62
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	7 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Eline Zenner, KU Leuven, Brussels, Belgium; Ad Backus, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Esme Winter-Froemel, Universität Trier.
Eline Zenner, KU Leuven, Brussels, Belgium; Ad Backus, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Esme Winter-Froemel, Universität Trier.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Placing usage, meaning and mind at the core of contact-induced variation and change 1

Part I Conceptual foundations and categorization principles in contact-induced change

1 Reconceptualizing language contact phenomena as cognitive processes Alexander Onysko 23

2 English-Estonian code-copying in blogs: Combining a contact linguistic and cognitive approach Anna Verschik 51

3 Reanalysis in language contact: Perceptive ambiguity, salience, and catachrestic reinterpretation Esme Winter-Froemel 81

4 When sociolinguistics and prototype analysis meet: The social meaning of sibilant palatalization in a Flemish Urban Vernacular Stefania Marzo Eline Zenner Dorien Van de Mieroop 127

Part II Associating concepts: Metaphors and cultural models in contact

5 Notions of Containment and Support In Irish English: Implications of language contact on the cognition of space Stephen Lucek 159

6 Conceptual metaphors as contact phenomena? The influence of local concepts on source and target domain Anna Finzel Hans-Georg Wolf 187

7 Cultural models in contact: Revealing attitudes toward regional varieties of Italian with Vector Space Models Stefano De Pascale Stefania Marzo Dirk Speelman 213

Part III Construction Grammar: Contact in and through more and less schematic form-meaning pairs

8 Language alternation and the state-event contrast: A case-study of Dutch-Turkish and Dutch-Moroccan heritage speakers Bram Vertommen 253

9 Partially schematic constructions as engines of development: Evidence from German-English bilingual acquisition Antje Endesfelder Quick Ad Backus Elena Lieven 279

10 Constructional renovation: The role of French legal language in the survival of the nominative-and-infinitive in Dutch Dirk Noël Timothy Colleman 305

Index 339