Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective /

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Imprint:New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 598 pages).
Language:English
Series:Empirical approaches to language typology ; 38
Empirical approaches to language typology ; 38.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11282114
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Other authors / contributors:Matras, Yaron, 1963-
Sakel, Jeanette, 1973-
ISBN:9783110199192
311019919X
311019628X
9783110196283
9783110196283
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9781282194724
9786612194726
6612194723
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
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Summary: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 of th.
Other form:Print version: Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2007