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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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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