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Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact TILSM 242

By Bernhard Walchli , Bjorn Wiemer , Björn Hansen

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2012
ISBN
3110270099, 9783110270099
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6441081 bytes)
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 242
Pages
670\684
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-11-16 00:07:24
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Description

The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization and language contact: grammatical replication and grammatical borrowability. The key issues are: How can grammatical replication be distinguished from other, superficially similar processes of contact-induced linguistic change, and under what conditions does it take place? Are there grammatical morphemes or constructions that are more easily borrowed than others, and how can language contact account for areal biases in the borrowing (vs. calquing) of grammatical formatives? The book is a major contribution to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the relationship between grammaticalization and language contact on a broad empirical basis.

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