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Grammars in contact : a cross-linguistic typology /

Grammars in contact : a cross-linguistic typology / editors, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon. - New York: Oxford University Press, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xx, 355 pages) - Explorations in linguistic typology ; 4. . - Explorations in linguistic typology ; 4. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents; Preface; Notes on the Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 GRAMMARS IN CONTACT: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE; 2 GRAMMATICAL DIFFUSION IN AUSTRALIA: FREE AND BOUND PRONOUNS; 3 HOW LONG DO LINGUISTIC AREAS LAST?: WESTERN NILOTIC GRAMMARS IN CONTACT; 4 GRAMMARS IN CONTACT IN THE VOLTA BASIN (WEST AFRICA): ON CONTACT-INDUCED GRAMMATICAL CAHANGE IN LIKPE; 5 BASQUE IN CONTACT WITH ROMANCE LANGUAGES; 6 LANGUAGE CONTACT AND CONVERGENCE IN EAST TIMOR: THE CASE OF TETUN DILI; 7 LANGUAGE CONTACT AND CONVERGENCE IN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN. 8 BALKANIZING THE BALKAN SPRACHBUND: A CLOSER LOOK AT GRAMMATICAL PERMEABILITY AND FEATURE DISTRIBUTION9 CANTONESE GRAMMAR IN AREAL PERSPECTIVE; 10 SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN THE VAUPÉS LINGUISTIC AREA; 11 THE VAUPÉS MELTING POT: TUCANOAN INFLUENCE ON HUP; 12 THE QUECHUA IMPACT IN AMUESHA, AN ARAWAK LANGUAGE OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON; 13 FEELING THE NEED: THE BORROWING OF CARIBAN FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES INTO MAWAYANA (ARAWAK); Glossary of Terms; Author I.

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Examining the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation, this book contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which sets out a theory of contact-induced change, and chapters which analyse the effects of language contact on grammatical systems in a variety of languages.


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2010.


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English.

9780199556465 9781429470506 142947050X 1281149063

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GBA673953 bnb


Languages in contact
Språktypologi.


Electronic books.

P130.5 / .G73 2007eb

420 / G746