Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
( Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT )
Publication series ：Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT
Author： Yaron Matras Jeanette Sakel
Publisher： De Gruyter Mouton
Publication year： 2007
E-ISBN: 9783110199192
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783119161008
Subject： H0 Linguistics
Keyword： Language Contact, Language Typology
Language： ENG
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Description
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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