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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784871303321

Titolo

Grammars in contact [[electronic resource] ] : a cross-linguistic typology / / editors, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-383-03470-2

1-281-14906-3

9786611149062

0-19-151412-8

1-4294-7050-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Explorations in linguistic typology ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

AĭkhenvalʹdA. I︠U︡ (Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna)

DixonRobert M. W. <1939->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Typology (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Notes on the Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 GRAMMARS IN CONTACT: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE; 2 GRAMMATICAL DIFFUSION IN AUSTRALIA: FREE AND BOUND PRONOUNS; 3 HOW LONG DO LINGUISTIC AREAS LAST?: WESTERN NILOTIC GRAMMARS IN CONTACT; 4 GRAMMARS IN CONTACT IN THE VOLTA BASIN (WEST AFRICA): ON CONTACT-INDUCED GRAMMATICAL CAHANGE IN LIKPE; 5 BASQUE IN CONTACT WITH ROMANCE LANGUAGES; 6 LANGUAGE CONTACT AND CONVERGENCE IN EAST TIMOR: THE CASE OF TETUN DILI; 7 LANGUAGE CONTACT AND CONVERGENCE IN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN

8 BALKANIZING THE BALKAN SPRACHBUND: A CLOSER LOOK AT GRAMMATICAL PERMEABILITY AND FEATURE DISTRIBUTION9 CANTONESE GRAMMAR IN AREAL PERSPECTIVE; 10 SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN THE VAUPÉS LINGUISTIC AREA; 11 THE VAUPÉS MELTING POT: TUCANOAN INFLUENCE ON HUP; 12 THE QUECHUA IMPACT IN AMUESHA, AN ARAWAK LANGUAGE OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON; 13 FEELING THE NEED: THE BORROWING OF



CARIBAN FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES INTO MAWAYANA (ARAWAK); Glossary of Terms; Author Index; Index of languages, language families, and linguistic areas; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which sets out a general theory of contact-induced change, and twelve subsequent chapters, which analyse the effects of language contact on grammatical systems in a variety of languages belonging to different geographical areas and diverse types. - ;Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may be based on common genetic o