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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Stolz, Thomas, Bakker, Dik, Salas Palomo, Rosa
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008.
Collection:Empirical approaches to language typology ; 35.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.