{"id":468,"date":"2020-10-15T09:21:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T13:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/?page_id=468"},"modified":"2021-05-17T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:16:03","slug":"contact-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/courses\/contact-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact Linguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span><em>BU Course Number<\/em>:\u00a0CAS LX345\/ GRS LX645<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>Prerequisites<\/em>: CAS LX250 Introduction to Linguistics.<\/li>\n<li><em>BU HUB:<\/em><span>\u00a0N\/A<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Offered at the undergraduate and graduate level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Course Description.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>[<a href=\"\/danerker\/files\/2021\/03\/lx345-645_language_contact_syllabus.pdf\">Sample Syllabus<\/a>]<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><span>Where does one language end and another begin? Can we neatly box in one linguistic system and seal it off from another? While we often associate particular languages with specific countries or\u00a0regions of the world, the truth is that linguistic and national frontiers very rarely overlap in either\u00a0time or space. Indeed, languages do not require passports, and they routinely travel, mix, and\u00a0interact with each other across permeable borders on both micro- and macroscopic scales. The goal\u00a0of this course is to examine the mechanisms and outcomes of linguistic contact by surveying\u00a0cases around the globe from the past and present. We will focus our attention on common, relatively\u00a0superficial processes of language contact such as lexical-borrowing and code-switching as well as\u00a0remarkable contact events such as wholesale death language and the emergence of entirely new\u00a0linguistic systems. We investigate whether certain levels of linguistic structure, such as sounds,\u00a0words, or sentences, are more susceptible to contact-induced language change than others. We examine the relationship between individuals and groups in situations of language contact and\u00a0explore the idea that a single person might be able to accelerate or stall rates of linguistic change.\u00a0We consider language contact within bi- and multilingual minds. Finally, we investigate\u00a0the\u00a0extent to which the outcomes of language contact are universal and inevitable, and, conversely, the\u00a0ways in which each contact situation must be understood uniquely as the complex result of\u00a0interacting social, political, linguistic, and historical factors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Course Number:\u00a0CAS LX345\/ GRS LX645 Prerequisites: CAS LX250 Introduction to Linguistics. BU HUB:\u00a0N\/A Offered at the undergraduate and graduate level. Course Description.\u00a0[Sample Syllabus]\u00a0Where does one language end and another begin? Can we neatly box in one linguistic system and seal it off from another? While we often associate particular languages with specific countries or\u00a0regions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/courses\/contact-linguistics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Contact Linguistics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3797,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions\/578"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/danerker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}