Language contact and grammatical change / Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva.
"The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers new insight into the mech...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Cambridge approaches to language contact.
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| Summary: | "The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers new insight into the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another. Drawing on findings from languages all over the world, Language Contact and Grammatical Change shows that the transfer of linguistic material across languages is quite regular and follows universal patterns of grammaticalization. Engaging and informative, this book will be of great interest to sociolinguists, linguistic anthropologists, and all those working on grammaticalization, language contact, and language change."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-299) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521845742 9780521845748 0521608287 9780521608282 |