Two Linguistic Systems in Contact: Grammar, Phonology, and Lexicon

Abstract

This chapter outlines some of the recent findings in the domain of language contact, focusing on three sub-domains of the language system: morpho-syntax; phonology; and lexicon. The study of phonology in language contact remains underrepresented, not just at the empirical, but certainly also at the conceptual level. The chapter first discusses the sub-domains of morpho-syntax, followed by phonology and lexicon together. The attention then turns to language contact research methodology. At present the fields of code-switching and morpho-syntactic interference are organized as separate domains of inquiry. The difference between them is simple: in the case of code-switching or code-mixing, lexical material from two languages is present in the clause, as well as morpho-syntactic structure from both languages. Interference involves morpho-syntactic structure from two languages, but lexical material from only one of them.

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