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JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE CONTACT
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The Journal of Language Contact (JLC) is a peer-reviewed journal. It focuses on the study of
language contact, language use and language change in accordance with a view of language
contact whereby both empirical data (the precise description of languages and how they are
used) and the resulting theoretical elaborations (hence the statement and analysis of new
problems) become the primary engines for advancing our understanding of the nature of
language. This involves linguistic, anthropological, historical, and cognitive factors. Such
an approach makes a major new contribution to understanding language change at a time
when there is a notable increase of interest and activity in this field.
Editors
Robert Nicolaï, Editor-in-Chief
Alexandra Aikhenvald, Associate Editor
Henning Schreiber, Consulting Editor
Editorial Board
Tucker Childs, Portland, USA
Françoise Gadet, Paris, France
Maarten Kossmann, Leiden, The Netherlands
Isabelle Léglise, Paris, France
Georges Lüdi, Basel, Switzerland
Yaron Matras, Manchester, United Kingdom
Marianne Mithun, Santa Barbara, USA
Annie Montaut, Paris, France
Maarten Mous, Leiden, The Netherlands
Salikoko Mufwene, Chicago, USA
Martine Vanhove, Paris, France
Rainer Vossen, Frankfurt, Germany
Donald Winford, Ohio, USA
Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, Adelaide, Australia
Advisory Board
Bernard Comrie, Leipzig, Germany – Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Boulder, USA – Jeff rey Heath,
Michigan, USA – Bernd Heine, Cologne, Germany – Pieter Muysken, Nijmegen, The
Netherlands – Carol Myers-Scotton, Michigan, USA – Malcolm Ross, Canberra, Australia
– Andrée Tabouret-Keller, Strasbourg, France – Sarah G. Thomason, Michigan, USA –
Ekkehard Wolff, Leipzig, Germany – Petr Zima, Prague, Czech Republic
Correspondence and Instructions for Authors
Submissions to the journal should be sent electronically as email attachments (in both
Word and PDF format) to the Editor-in-Chief: Robert Nicolaï - nicolai@unice.fr.
Books for review, book reviews and offers of review articles should be sent to:
Robert Nicolaï - nicolai@unice.fr
7, rue Neuve
F-06510 Le Broc
France
Author guidelines can be downloaded from the journal homepage at brill.nl/jlc.
Journal of Language Contact (print ISSN 1877-1491, online ISSN 1955-2629) is published
semi-annually by BRILL, Plantijnstraat 2, 2321 JC Leiden, The Netherlands, tel +31 (0)71
535-3500, fax +31 (0)71 531-7532.
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Evolution of Languages, Contact
and Discourse
Volume 4 (2011)
LEIDEN • BOSTON
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Please make sure to consult the Instructions to Authors prior to submission to ensure your submission
is formatted correctly. These instructions can be downloaded from the journal homepage at brill.nl/jlc.
The JLC submission guidelines cover the following items:
1. Aims and Scope
2. Submission of articles
3. Originality of the submitted work
4. General instructions for submission
5. Language of contributions
6. Transliteration and fonts
7. Article organization and style
8. References
9. Illustrative matter
10. Abstract and keywords
11. Proofs
12. Consent to publish
13. Off-prints
Appendix: ‘The Leipzig Glossing Rules: Conventions for interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses’
Contact Information
Please send any inquiries regarding manuscript submission to: nicolai@unice.fr.
© 2011 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing,
IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publishers.
Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by the publisher provided
that the appropriate fees are paid directly to Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive,
Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change.
Printed in the Netherlands (on acid-free paper).
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Editorial Note
Robert Nicolaï
This is the fourth volume of Journal of Language Contact (JLC). It is the first
one to be published under the auspices of Brill Publishing House. This new
and important stage in the development of the Journal offers opportunity to
address the scholarly objectives and aims of our enterprise.
In my editorial introduction to the first volume of the Journal (2007),
I emphasized the importance of language contact in modern day linguistics.
This can be seen in the sheer amount of scientific publications in the area, in
terms of monographs, edited collections, summary works (Introductions,
Handbooks, and others), and further scholarly exercises. Such substantial
increase in scholarly interest in the manifold aspects of language contact and
related scientific questions demonstrates its relevance in today’s linguistics.
Within this context, JLC can be seen as an scholarly forum for the develop-
ment of scholarly debates and discussion of problems in the area of contact
between languages, and between peoples. The study of these issues contribute
to (i) a better understanding of the dynamics of linguistic processes, and lan-
guages themselves; (ii) a more refined conceptualization of the means of
human communication; (iii) a better grasp of linguistic meanings and their
semiotic representation. The directions of research are manifold. We are con-
cerned with linguistic structures, with historical factors which might affect
contact-induced phenomena, and the cognitive parameters which underlie all
linguistic developments, in addition to the socio-linguistic dimensions and
the semiotic underpinnings of communication. All these diverse aspects —
encompassing linguistic meanings and linguistic forms — interrelate in the
domain of human interaction, where the human language ability develops
and languages emerge.
In agreement with this, we will continue to pursue the initial policies of JLC,
along the following lines.
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI 10.1163/187740911X565321
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– We welcome submissions of scholarly papers which contain original
empirical data and case studies instrumental for formulating theoretical
generalizations;
– we especially appreciate those submissions which aim at contributing
towards general linguistic debates, elaborating on important theoretical
issues in the field.
At the same time, in our view, JLC should not be just a way of making large
amounts of information available. The Journal will assume an active role in
shaping knowledge and theory in the field. We thus welcome critical discus-
sions and debates on any question of current, or emerging, theoretical interest.
We envisage critical review articles and thematically organized debates as a
particularly fruitful way towards our common aim.
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Note de la Rédaction
Ce quatrième volume de Journal of Language Contact (JLC) est le premier
publié sous la responsabilité des Éditions Brill. Il ouvre une nouvelle étape
importante et nous donne l’occasion de faire un rapide retour sur les objectifs
et la finalité scientifiques de la revue.
Dans la présentation du premier volume de la revue (2007) j’avais souligné
cette évidence que la question du contact des langues avait désormais cessé de
se situer aux marches de la recherche pour venir occuper le devant de la scène.
L’augmentation actuelle de la production scientifique dans le champ le suggère
et l’édition d’ouvrages de synthèse (Introductions et autres « Handbooks »)
de plus en plus nombreux qui visent à baliser le domaine en est la preuve.
Le décuplement des intérêts de recherche qui émergent et des questions scien-
tifiques qui aujourd’hui se croisent autour de cette thématique ne peuvent que
l’attester.
Dans ce contexte, JLC se présente comme une plate-forme disponible et
ouverte pour le développement de l’ensemble des problématiques scientifiques
qui se croisent dans ce domaine du contact des langues et des populations.
Problématiques dont l’étude contribue (i) à une meilleure saisie des dynami-
ques linguistiques et langagières, (ii) à une conceptualisation plus aiguë de la
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transformation des outils de notre communication, (iii) à notre compréhen-
sion de la construction du sens et des développements sémiotiques qui en
résultent. Les directions de recherche sont variées car elles concernent aussi
bien les structurations linguistiques, les facteurs historiques, les paramètres
cognitifs que les dimensions sociales et sémiotiques de la communication.
Cependant, elles s’articulent toutes – même mes plus formelles – dans l’espace
humain que nous partageons, où le langage se développe et les langues se
manifestent.
Pratiquement, cela veut dire que, dans la continuité de la politique de JLC :
– nos colonnes sont largement ouvertes à des articles bien documentés qui
proposent des travaux empiriques originaux et des études de cas sans
lesquelles aucune théorisation n’aurait de légitimité ;
– nous accueillons avec le plus grand intérêt des études qui contribuent à
développer la réflexion linguistique générale et débouchent sur des pers-
pectives d’élaboration théorique dans le domaine.
Dans le même temps, nous souhaitons que JLC ne soit pas seulement une
plate-forme statique de diffusion de l’information scientifique mais un acteur
dans le procès de construction des connaissances dans son domaine. En consé-
quence, nous appelons et accueillons l’activité critique et éventuellement
contradictoire susceptible de se développer autour des questions théoriques
qui émergent ou qui sont en suspens. Nous envisageons tout particulièrement
cette activité séminale soit sous la forme d’articles critiques, soit sous celle de
débats thématiques organisés.
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