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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2008.
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Colección: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
35. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.