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French-Dutch Bilinguals Do Not Maintain Obligatory Semantic Distinctions: Evidence from Placement Verbs
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Alferink, Inge; Gullberg, Marianne – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
It is often said that bilinguals are not the sum of two monolinguals but that bilingual systems represent a third pattern. This study explores the exact nature of this pattern. We ask whether there is evidence of a merged system when one language makes an obligatory distinction that the other one does not, namely in the case of placement verbs in…
Descriptors: French, Indo European Languages, Bilingualism, Semantics
The Role of Language Contact in Semantic Change: "Ser" and "Estar"--A Response to Geeslin and Guijarro-Fuentes
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Klee, Carol A. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
The role of language contact in linguistic change remains a polemic issue in the field of contact linguistics. Many researchers (Weinreich, 1953; Lefebvre, 1985; Prince, 1988; Silva-Corvalan, 1994; King, 2000; Sankoff, 2002; Labov, 2007) believe that there are limits on the types of linguistic patterns that can be transmitted across languages,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Language Patterns