The Effects of Language Contact on Lexical Semantics: The Case of Abui
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Effects of Language Contact on Lexical Semantics: The Case of Abui
Original language description
This chapter investigates how language contact with the Austronesian lingua franca, Alor Malay, leads to lexical semantic changes in the lexicon of the Papuan language, Abui. Using a variationist approach, it examines the use of a subset of verbs of visual perception, falling, change of state, across four age-groups of Abui-Alor Malay bilinguals. Following the apparent-time construct, the use of these verbs is compared among the four groups in order to understand how semantic change unfolds within a speech community. The results reveal that (pre)adolescents and young adults exhibit very strong tendencies of generalization in all three verbal domains, while adults do so in only one verbal domain. This study illustrates the unique trajectory of every verb in language contact settings based on external factors (contact) and internal factors (its patterns of use, polysemy, and frequency). This study also offers some support to the apparent-time construct in the field of lexical semantics—suggesting that changes found in (pre)adolescents’ speech are likely to carry on into young adulthood. It thus challenges claims that increased exposure in adulthood can enhance L2 lexico-semantic learning.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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O - Projekt operacniho programu
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Traces of Contact in the Lexicon: Austronesian and Papuan Studies
ISBN
978-90-04-52893-2
Number of pages of the result
29
Pages from-to
392-420
Number of pages of the book
452
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
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