Language Contact and Change in the Americas
Studies in honor of Marianne Mithun
Editors
| University of Hawai'i at Manoa
| SIL International
| California State University, San Bernardino
This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially with regard to contact phenomena in languages of North America, Meso-America and South America. The individual chapters cover a broad range of topics, including sound change, morphosyntactic change, lexical semantics, grammaticalization, language endangerment, and discourse-pragmatic change. With chapters from distinguished scholars and talented newcomers alike, this book will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in internally- and externally-motivated language change.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 173] 2016. viii, 416 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Foreword
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vii–viii
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1–14
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Part I North America: California
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15–32
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33–66
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67–90
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91–104
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Part II North America: Athabaskan, Iroquoian, and Uto-Aztecan
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105–138
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139–166
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167–188
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189–218
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219–246
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Part III Northern Mexico, Mesoamerica, and South America
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247–272
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273–296
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297–314
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315–338
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339–362
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Part IV The Americas and beyond
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363–384
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385–410
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Index
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411–416
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“This book starts in California, as is fitting for a book in honor of Marianne Mithun, and then works its way outward, reflecting the state of knowledge about language contact and change in the Americas, where considerably more is known about North America but where South America offers exciting new areas for research in this field. The book is a just tribute to one of the most important contemporary scholars of American indigenous languages, and to someone for whom language contact and change have been central motifs.”
Nora C. England, The University of Texas at Austin
“Marianne Mithun's work has influenced a generation of scholars, helping to shape the direction of scholarship in Native American languages. Inspired by Mithun's passion and flair for seeking explanation within the wider context of language use, the authors explore a range of contact phenomena relevant not only to the Americas but to our understanding of language evolution more broadly. The breadth and depth of these contributions provide clear evidence of a bright future for Americanist linguistics.”
Gary Holton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Cited by
Cited by other publications
Hickey, Raymond
2020.
In The Handbook of Language Contact,
► pp. 1 ff. 
Turan, Dilek, Elena Antonova-Ünlü, Çiğdem Sağın-Şimşek & Mehmet Akkuş
2020. Looking for contact-induced language change: Converbs in heritage Turkish.
International Journal of Bilingualism 24:5-6 ► pp. 1035 ff.
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Subjects
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General