Long-term effects of CS

Clues to structural borrowing

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20507490
AutoresFredric Field (California State University, Northridge), Fredric W Field (California State University, Northridge, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen9
Número3-4
Páginas341-360
Fecha de publicación2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Bilingualism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1367-0069 • E-ISSN: 1756-6878
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13670069050090030301
OpenAlexW2120313354
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias 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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