Language Contact and Grammatical Change
The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers an interesting 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 - contrary…
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Weitere Autoren: Kuteva, Tania / Mufwene, Salikoko S. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-60828-2
- EAN: 9780521608282
- Produktnummer: 1480576
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.9 cm 506 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 506
Über den Autor
Bernd Heine is Professor of African Studies in the Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne. Tania Kuteva is Professor of English Linguistics at the Institute for English and American Studies, University of Dusseldorf.
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