Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-11-019628-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 598 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1046 g

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

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).

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguist

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sakel, Jeanette

Matras, Yaron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Yaron Matras and Jeanette Sakel, University of Manchester, UK.