Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective / / edited by Yaron Matras, Jeanette Sakel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807364603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-19472-0; 9786612194726; 3-11-019919-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (608 p.)
• Collana: Empirical approaches to language typology ; ; 38
• Classificazione: ER 300
• Altri autori (Persone): MatrasYaron <1963->; SakelJeanette <1973->
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetti: Language and languages - Foreign elements; 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 indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Types of loan: Matter and pattern -- The borrowability of structural categories -- Grammatical borrowing in Tasawaq -- Grammatical borrowing in K abeena -- Grammatical borrowing in Likpe (Sɛkpɛlé) -- Grammatical borrowing in Katanga Swahili -- Grammatical borrowing in Khuzistani Arabic -- Grammatical borrowing in Domari -- Grammatical borrowing in Kurdish (Northern Group) -- Arabic grammatical borrowing in Western Neo-Aramaic -- Grammatical borrowing in North-eastern Neo-Aramaic -- Grammatical borrowing in Macedonian Turkish -- Grammatical borrowing in Kildin Saami -- Grammatical borrowing in Yiddish -- Grammatical borrowing in Hungarian Rumungro -- Grammatical borrowing in Manange -- Grammatical borrowing in Indonesian -- Grammatical borrowing in Biak -- Sino-Vietnamese grammatical borrowing: An overview -- Recent grammatical borrowing into an Australian Aboriginal language: The case of Jaminjung and Kriol -- Grammatical borrowing in Rapanui -- Grammatical borrowing in Nahuatl -- Grammatical borrowing in Yaqui -- The case of Otomi: A contribution to grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective -- Grammatical borrowing in Purepecha -- Grammatical borrowing in ; Imbabura Quichua (Ecuador) -- Grammatical borrowing in Paraguayan Guaraní -- Grammatical borrowing in Hup -- Mosetén borrowing from Spanish -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: 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