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Grammatical replication and borrowability in language contact /

The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization and language contact: grammatical replication and grammatical borrowability. The key issues are: How can grammatical replication be distinguished from other, superficially similar pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wiemer, Björn, 1966-, Wälchli, Bernhard, Hansen, Björn, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 242.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Addresses of contributors
  • A. Introduction
  • 1. Contact-induced grammatical change: Diverse phenomena, diverse perspectives
  • B. Survey on grammaticalization and language contact in Slavic languages
  • 2. Assessing the range of contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavonic
  • C. General issues
  • 3. Anintegrative model ofgrammaticalization
  • 4. Processes of grammaticalisation and 'borrowing the unborrowable': Contact-induced change and the integration and grammaticalisation of borrowed terms for some core grammatical construction types
  • 5. Grammaticalization clines in space: Zooming in on synchronic traces of diffusion processes
  • D. Noun phrase
  • 6. The grammaticalization of an indefinite article in Slavic micro-languages
  • 7. On the grammaticalization of the definite article in Colloquial Upper Sorbian (CUS)
  • E. Modality and evidentiality
  • 8. The grammaticalization of evidential markersin Garifuna
  • 9. What is 'contact-induced grammaticalization'? Examples from Mayan and Mixe-Zoquean languages
  • 10. The Yiddish modal system between Germanic and Slavonic. A case study on the limits of contact induced grammaticalization
  • 11. Modality in an areal context: The case of a Latgalian dialect
  • F. Tense-aspect and voice
  • 12. The Balkan perfects: Grammaticalization and contact
  • 13. The "recipient passive" in West Slavic: A calque from German and its grammaticalization
  • G. Clause linking and predication
  • 14. Conditional and reason clauses in Sierra Popoluca: The influence of Náhuatl and Spanish
  • 15. Verb serialization in northeast Europe: The case of Russian and its Finno-Ugric neighbours
  • Subject index
  • Language index
  • Author index.