1. Language Contact and the Politics of Recognition amongst Tibetans in the People’s Republic of China
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30 avril 2020
- handle: 10670/1.br8klg
- isbn: 9781783747047
- eisbn: 9781783747061
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Himalaya Tibet sociolinguistics Himalayan region politics of language contact Assam Nepal political science LAN009050 POL009000 SOC001000 SOC051000 Linguistics CFB JFFE JH JPBSujets proches
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Vertical and Horizontal Politics of Language Contact in Tibet Language contact has both horizontal and vertical dimensions. The horizontal dimension refers to the exchange of linguistic features that takes place during language contact. This includes the flows of lexicon, phonemes, syntactic structures, and so on, that occur via practices of borrowing, code-switching, and the intergenerational transmission of languages acquired in adulthood. Over time, such horizontal exchanges lead to ...