Language contact and contact languages /

This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives - notably those of language typology, diachronic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Siemund, Peter, 1965-, Kintana, Noemi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Series:Hamburg studies on multilingualism ; v. 7.
Subjects:
Languages in contact.
Linguistic change.
Langues en contact.
Changement linguistique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Language Contact and Contact Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Acknowledgement; Table of contents; List of contributors; Part I. Introduction; Language contact: Constraints and common paths of contact induced language change; Part II. Typology; Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages; Contact-induced word order change without word order change; Remodeling grammar: Copying, conventionalization, grammaticalization; Contact-induced change: The case of the Tamangic languages.

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