Katanga Swahili and Heerlen Dutch
A sociohistorical and linguistic comparison of contact varieties in mining regions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4178193 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonie Cornips (0000-0003-2408-6083, Maastricht University, corresponding author), Vincent De Rooij (University of Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 2019 |
| Issue | 258 |
| Pages | 35-69 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl-2019-2028 |
| OpenAlex | W2964768572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article compares sociolinguistic and structural outcomes of language contact processes in two mining areas on two different continents, namely the Katanga region in the southeast of what is now the DR Congo, Africa and Heerlen as centre of the former Eastern Mine District in the southeastern province of Limburg in the Netherlands, Europe. Several similarities between these two regions make this comparison interesting. Both in Katanga and Heerlen, the natural copper and coal resources were located in border regions that were peripheral to central seats of government. In both regions, the exploitation of these resources, the growth of mining industries and rapid urbanization, began in the same period, the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Despite being located on different continents - Africa and Europe - similar social conditions of language contact were responsible for the genesis of the language varieties underground and above ground. The language contact situations in Limburg and Katanga both resulted in structural innovation of Dutch and Swahili respectively. The most interesting innovation we identify in both cases can be characterized as the regularization of grammatical properties, and the expansion of aspect marking
Archaeology · Coal · Coal mining · Geography · Language contact · Linguistics · Swahili · Urbanization · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Ecology
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Grammatical borrowing in Katanga Swahili
Belonging through Languagecultural Practices in the Periphery
Non‐acceptance and negation in the Swahili of Lubumbashi
Syntactic variation, parameters, and social distribution
Changing Border Regimes, Mining, and Cross-border Labor in the Dutch–Belgian–German Borderlands, 1900–1973
French in urban Lubumbashi Swahili
Comparative Immigrant history
Writing as a problem
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |