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Title

Grammatical replication and borrowability in language contact / edited by Björn Wiemer, Bernhard Wälchli, Björn Hansen.

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Wiemer, Björn, 1966-
• Wälchli, Bernhard.
• Hansen, Björn, 1964-

Description

xiv, 670 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 242

Uniform Title

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 242.

Subject

• Languages in contact > Congresses
• Language and languages > Foreign elements > Congresses
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammaticalization > Congresses
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers presented at a workshop held in 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Contact-induced grammatical change : diverse phenomena, diverse perspectives / Björn Wiemer and Bernhard Wälchli -- 2. Assessing the range of contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavonic / Björn Wiemer and Björn Hansen -- 3. An integrative nodel of grammaticalization / Tania Kuteva and Bernd Heine -- 4. Processes of grammaticalisation and 'borrowing the unborrowable' : contact-induced change and the integration and grammaticalisation of borrowed terms for some core grammatical construction types / Anthony P. Grant -- 5. Grammaticalization cline in space : zooming in on synchronic traces of diffusion processes / Bernhard Wälchli -- 6. The grammaticalization of an indefinite article in Slavic / Walter Breu -- 7. On the grammaticalization of the definite article in Colloquial Upper Sorbian (CUS) / Lenka Scholze -- 8. The grammaticalization of evidential markers in Garifuna / Geneviève Escure -- 9. What is 'contact-induced grammaticalization'? : examples from Mayan and Mixe-Zoquean languages / Volker Gast and Johan van der Auwera -- 10. The Yiddish modal system between Germanic and Slavonic : a case study on the limits of contact induced grammaticalization / Björn Hansen and Sandra Birzer -- 11. Modality in areal context : the case of a Latgalian dialect / Nicole Nau -- 12. The Balkan perfects : grammaticalization and contact / Bridget Drinka -- 13. The "recipient passive" in West Slavic : a calque from German and its grammaticalization / Markus Giger -- 14. Conditional and reason clauses in Sierra Popoluca : the influence of Náhuatl and Spanish / Salomé Gutiérrez Morales -- 15. Verb serialization in northeast Europe : the case of Russian and its Finno-Ugric neighbours / Daniel Weiss.

ISBN

9783110270099 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

• 798053956
• SCSB-11224041

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library