Contact and Diffusion

Cambridge University Press eBooks, pp. 189–213

Abstract

The chapter discusses contact-induced phenomena, the models used in linguistics to represent processes of diffusion, and the principles that govern them. It explains several cases of diffusion across language barriers, borrowing and substrate effects, dialect contact, and new-dialect formation.

Authors 4

1. Enam Al‐Wer

   University of Essex

   Affiliation as printed

   University of Essex

2. Uri Horesh

   Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales

   Affiliation as printed

   Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris

3. Bruno Herin Aachen

   Leiden University · Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales

   Affiliation as printed

   Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris

   Universiteit Leiden

4. Rudolf De Jong Aachen

   Leiden University

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   Universiteit Leiden