Susceptibility vs. Resistance

Case Studies on Different Structural Categories in Language-Contact Situations
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-078519-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 803 g

Reihe: Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL)

The topic of the volume is the contrast between borrowable categories and those which resist transfer.

Resistance is illustrated for the unattested emergence of grammatical gender, the negligible impact of English and Spanish on the number category in Patagonian Welsh, the reluctance of replicas to borrow English . MAT-borrowing does not imply the copying of rules as the Spanish function-words in the Chamorro irrealis show.

Chamorro and Tetun Dili look similar on account of their contact-induced parallels. The languages of the former USSR have borrowed largely identical sets of conjunctions from Russian, Arabic, and Persian to converge in the domain of clause linkage.

Resistance against and susceptibility to transfer call for further investigations to the benefit of language-contact theory.

Zielgruppe

Linguists, scientists in the field of language contact, typologis

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levkovych, Nataliya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Nataliya Levkovych, University of Bremen, Germany.