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Aspects of Language Contact : New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes.

This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field. In the first part of the volume, the focu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stolz, Thomas
Otros Autores: Bakker, Dik, Palomo, Rosa Salas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Colección:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, v. 35.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Romancisation worldwide
  • Loanword typology: Steps toward a systematic cross-linguistic study of lexical borrowability
  • Modelling contact-induced change in grammar
  • Loan verbs in a typological perspective
  • Why we need dynamic models for sociolinguistics and language contact studies
  • Constructivist theory of language contact and the Romancisation of indigenous languages
  • Spanish meets Guaraní, Otomí and Quichua: A multilingual confrontation
  • French influence on the native languages of Canada and adjacent USA
  • Portuguese influence on Kulina
  • Creolization and the fate of inflections
  • Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages
  • Contact-induced changes in Amerindian languages of French Guiana
  • A case of weak Romancisation: Italian in East Africa
  • Loan word gender: A case of romancisation in Standard German and related enclave varieties
  • Backmatter