Convergence in the domains of static spatial relations and events of putting and taking. Evidence from bilingual speakers of Romansh and German

• Published in: International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism Vol. 18; no. 5; pp. 624 - 642
• Main Author: Berthele, Raphael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 03.09.2015
• Subjects: Bilingualism; caused motion; Contrastive Linguistics; convergence; Foreign Countries; German; Idiolects; Language Dominance; Language Research; Language Usage; Language Variation; Multilingualism; Rhaeto Romance; Romance Languages; Romansh; Semantic Categories; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Space; spatial expressions; Statistical Analysis; Swiss German; Switzerland; Verbs; Switzerland

In this article the way bilinguals handle differing semantic categories in their two languages will be investigated. Drawing on bilingual data from multilingual speakers of Romansh as well as from speakers of (Swiss) German, the tensions that emerge from 'conflicting habits' in the two lan...