Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective /
The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the p...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2008]
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Series: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ,
38 |
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Summary: | The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication) |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (598 pages) Issued also in printing |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web |
ISBN: | 9783110199192 |
ISSN: | 0933-761X ; |
Access: | Restricted for use by site license. |