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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2012.
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Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
242. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.