none 10.1075/hsm.13.17hod John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67856498 1419990 1419986 202507022153000025 10.1075 2025-07-02T15:52:18Z 2014-03-23T18:21:38Z 65 1571-4934 10.1075/hsm https://benjamins.com/ catalog/hsm Kurt Braunmüller Hamburg University https://ror.org/00g30e956 Christoph Gabriel Hamburg University https://ror.org/00g30e956 The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on “Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies” (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center “Multilingualism” after twelve years of successful research. It presents a panorama of contemporary research in multilingualism covering three fields of investigation: (1) the simultaneous and successive acquisition of more than one language, including language attrition in multilingual settings, (2) historical aspects of multilingualism and variance, and (3) multilingual communication. The papers cover a vast variety of linguistic phenomena including morphology, syntax, segmental and prosodic phonology as well as discourse production and language use, taking both individual and societal aspects of multilingualism into account. The languages addressed include numerous Romance, Slavic and Germanic varieties as well as Welsh, Hungarian, Turkish, and several South African autochthonous languages. 13 8 22 2012 8 8 2012 9789027219336 9789027273499 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/hsm.13 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027273499 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027273499.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/hsm.13/html Steffen Höder University of Münster, Germany https://ror.org/00pd74e08 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5129-3443 A diasystematic approach to common structures Language contact phenomena are often described with reference to their effect on the monolingual systems of the varieties involved, both in historical and in contact linguistics. This contribution argues that an essentially multilingual perspective on these phenomena is more adequate. Bilingual speakers in stable bilingual groups create a common system for all their languages, incorporating both interlingual links and language-unspecified elements along with language-specific structures. In a construction grammar analysis, such systems as well as changes within this type of system can be conceptualized as interlingual constructional networks, which are established, stored, and processed in exactly the same way as monolingual grammars. 8 22 2012 8 8 2012 241 258 10.1075/hsm.13.17hod https://benjamins.com/catalog/hsm.13.17hod https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/hsm.13.17hod/html