kontaktivorme
Kontaktivorme is a term encountered in some strands of sociolinguistics and discourse studies to describe a suite of linguistic variants that arise in language contact settings and gain recognition as a coherent set within a community. The term blends the idea of contact with form or variant and is used to capture systematic patterns that do not neatly fit traditional language boundaries.
These variants may be phonetic shifts, lexemes, inflectional patterns, or syntactic constructions that emerge when speakers
Researchers typically identify kontaktivorme through fieldwork in multilingual communities, corpus analyses, and sociolinguistic interviews, looking for
The concept is used to document language change in contact zones and to inform language education and