Long-term effects of CS

Clues to structural borrowing

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20507490
AutoresFredric Field (California State University, Northridge), Fredric W Field (California State University, Northridge, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume9
Fascículo3-4
Páginas341-360
Data de publicação2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Bilingualism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1367-0069 • E-ISSN: 1756-6878
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13670069050090030301
OpenAlexW2120313354
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas29

Contact phenomena such as codeswitching and linguistic borrowing occur quite normally in situations of intense language contact. Some researchers have proposed relationships between the two suggesting causal links, and that codeswitching, as an assumed mechanism of change (Myers-Scotton, 2002, p. 104; Thomason, 2001, p. 131), in some way causes or instigates the kinds of lexical and structural borrowing that lead to long-term language change. This paper attempts to make clear that, while the two phenomena may have links, they are not causal in nature. Both emanate from similar underlying social conditions that constitute predispositions to particular outcomes. Proximate causes for each must lie elsewhere, in mental responses to the triggering effects of particular environmental stimuli. They represent consequences of the dynamic interaction of underlying social conditions and consequent psychological states (Grosjean, 2001). One conclusion is that contact phenomena are behaviors produced by speakers as they interact with environmental factors such as linguistic input (e.g., mixed input from other speakers). Motivations for long-term change may be as simple as an unconscious desire of one community to copy the speech of another socially and, therefore, linguistically dominant group, the dwindling availability of viable alternatives (via shift), or a combination of the two

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