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Language contact and grammatical change /

The phenomenon of language contact has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heine, Bernd, 1939-
Otros Autores: Kuteva, Tania, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Colección:Cambridge approaches to language contact.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The phenomenon of language contact has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 308 pages) : maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-299) and indexes.
ISBN:0511080875
9780511080876
9780511614132
0511614136
9786610422210
6610422214
0511331282
9780511331282