Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective /
Imprint: | New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007. |
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Description: | vii, 598 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Empirical approaches to language typology ; 38 |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7189241 |
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 the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication). |
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Physical Description: | vii, 598 p. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9783110196283 311019628X |