Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Transcription, Symbols, and Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodology: Principles and Practice
- 3 Gender
- 4 Education
- 5 Social Stratification
- 6 Religion and Ethnicity
- 7 Language Change
- 8 Spatial Variation
- 9 Contact and Diffusion
- References
- Subject Index
- Place Index
- Name Index
9 - Contact and Diffusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2022
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Transcription, Symbols, and Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodology: Principles and Practice
- 3 Gender
- 4 Education
- 5 Social Stratification
- 6 Religion and Ethnicity
- 7 Language Change
- 8 Spatial Variation
- 9 Contact and Diffusion
- References
- Subject Index
- Place Index
- Name Index
Summary
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.
Keywords
contactdiffusionregional standardskoineisationlevellingMaghrebMashreqnew-dialect formationfudged formsubstratesubstratal effectborrowingAramaicCentral AsiaNorth AfricaAmazighareal groupingSprachbundsociolinguistic typologyUrban Hierarchy ModelWave ModelWave TheoryGravity ModelContra-Hierachical diffusiontransitional zoneinterdialectal form
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Arabic Sociolinguistics , pp. 189 - 213Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022