Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1340 g
Reihe: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages
Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1340 g
Reihe: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages
ISBN: 978-90-04-23413-0
Verlag: Brill
The genesis of Sri Lanka Malay informs theories of language contact, language change, and 'creolization', as well as sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and a critical analysis of the 'endangered language' discourse.
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Historical linguists, creolists, specialists in South and South East Asia as well as anyone interested in diaspora populations, construction of identity and the history of Sri Lanka.
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Weitere Infos & Material
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
PART I
OVERVIEW
1. Introduction
Sebastian Nordhoff
2. Synchronic Grammar of Sri Lanka Malay
Sebastian Nordhoff
PART II
SOCIOLOGY, HISTORY, AND DEMOGRAPHY
3. Sri Lanka Malay: New Findings on Contacts
Peter Bakker
4. Known, Inferable, and Discoverable in Sri Lankan Malay Research
Peter Slomanson
5. Issues of Power and Privilege in the Maintenance of Sri Lanka Malay: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
Romola Rassool
PART III
LANGUAGE CONTACT
6. The Lexical Sources of Sri Lanka Malay Revisited
Scott Paauw
7. Sri Lankan Languages in the South-South Asia Linguistic Area: Sinhala and Sri Lanka Malay
James W. Gair
8. Hijacked Constructions in Second Language Acquisition: Implications for Sri Lanka Malay
Ian Smith
9. The Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Sri Lanka Malay
Mohamed Jaffar
10. The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay as a Multi-Layered Process
Sebastian Nordhoff
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