Genetic Classification and Language Contact

Noonan, Michael

doi:10.1002/9781444318159.ch2

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“…Besters-Dilger, Dermarkar, Pfänder, and Rabus, eds., 2014). Congruence is distinct from a genetic relationship; the conventional genealogical model of language, propounded in particular by Bossong (2009) or Noonan (2010), which is being increasingly challenged, places Romance languages in a close genealogical relation as they all stem directly from Latin. This genealogical relation usually results in a high degree of congruence.…”

Section: Languagementioning

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Introduction: French Language(s) in Contact Worldwide

Gadet

Ludwig

2014

J Lang Contact

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The awareness of language that culminated in France with the French Revolution has remained dominant till the present day: a nation une et indivisible corresponds to a concept of the national language as a homogenous entity, self-sufficient and free from outside and dialectal influences. This conception is contradicted by two historical facts, however. Firstly, various waves of language contact were constitutive of the emergence and development of the French language from the very beginning. Secondly, a new structure of varieties developed through the colonial expansion of France outside Europe, in which many forms of language contact are of significant importance. The best way to capture this diversity adequately is to adhere to a broadly ecological approach (linguistic ecology) that takes into account various parameters, such as history, social context, competence, and universals. This is demonstrated with samples of transcribed speech from Togo, Guadeloupe and Nova Scotia. The linguistic ecology approach is the guiding principle of all the articles in this volume.

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Section: Languagementioning

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Introduction: French Language(s) in Contact Worldwide

Gadet

Ludwig

2014

J Lang Contact

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“…over horizontal transmission. For this reason, network programs have been advocated in linguistics as well (cf., among many others, , McMahon 2010, Noonan 2010, Nelson-Sathi et al 2010, under the traditional (essentially since Schmidt's 1872 Wellentheorie) idea that "the diversification of the Indo-European family must be modeled at least in part as a network rather than a tree" (Ringe et al 2002: 110). The computational attempts to analyze relations within Indo-European have been encouraging, though hardly uncontroversial.…”

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Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages

Longobardi

Guardiano

Silvestri

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The Parametric Comparison Method (PCM, Guardiano & Longobardi 2005, Longobardi & Guardiano 2009) is grounded on the assumption that syntactic parameters are more appropriate than other traits for use as comparanda for historical reconstruction, because they are able to provide unambiguous correspondences and objective measurements, thus guaranteeing wide-range applicability and quantitative exactness. This article discusses a set of experiments explicitly designed to evaluate the impact of parametric syntax in representing historical relatedness, and performed on a selection of 26 contemporary Indo-European varieties. The results show that PCM is in fact able to correctly identify genealogical relations even from modern languages only, performing as accurately as lexical methods, and that its effectiveness is not limited by interference effects such as ‘horizontal’ transmission. PCM is thus validated as a powerful tool for the analysis of historical relationships not only on a long-range perspective (as suggested by Longobardi & Guardiano 2009), but even on more focused, though independently well-known domains.

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“…To fully explore this possibility we must have an idea of what level of variation is 'normal' in a language family, and then explore the appearance of variation that lies beyond this normal range. This reflects the view, present in some work on diachronic linguistics, that language family membership is in part a function of whether the language has a close enough typological 'fit' (see, for instance, discussion in Noonan 2010). While this is not part of the methodology espoused in the classical comparative method, it is in a sense necessary in order to be able to discuss the problematic case of pidgin and creole languages.…”

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“…This tells us that something other than uninterrupted intergenerational transmission was going on (following Noonan 2010). Adding in the requirement that we find regular correspondences (in the lexicon, phonology and morphology) between languages, we can arrive at a simple factorial typology of language relations, shown in Table 1.…”

Section: Studying Contact Without Detailed Studies Of the Languages Imentioning

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“…While we do not yet have a strong theory about the level of change that is expected, and while such a theory would almost certainly have to be qualified endlessly to take account of local conditions, we can certainly examine relative degrees of 'typicality': that is, the degree to which an 'essential nature,' to quote Noonan (2010), is preserved in common between the languages under examination.…”

Section: Detecting Contact Without An Out-groupmentioning

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Studying Contact without Detailed Studies of the Languages Involved: A Non-Philological Approach to Language Contact

Donohue¹

2012

BLS

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Studies of contact have revealed that all kinds of language material can, in the right circumstances, be borrowed from one language to another. Detecting, describing, and analyzing such situations typically involve the detailed study of at least two languages. An alternative involves detecting contact situations through database analysis. This cannot supplant the detailed work that requires detailed descriptive work in particular fields, but can allow us to examine large enough samples of languages that we can start to better understand, through calibration against known histories and other non-linguistic data types, likelihoods of different 'social contact' scenarios resulting in different kinds of linguistic traces, and also allow for the more targeted investigation of specific areas and language-to-language interactions. I shall describe the method, and illustrate its application in a number of case studies in regions for which we have good samples of language data.

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Genetic Classification and Language Contact

Cited by 29 publications

References 24 publications

Introduction: French Language(s) in Contact Worldwide

Introduction: French Language(s) in Contact Worldwide

Toward a syntactic phylogeny of modern Indo-European languages

Studying Contact without Detailed Studies of the Languages Involved: A Non-Philological Approach to Language Contact

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