Morphologies in Contact / / ed. by Martine Vanhove, Thomas Stolz, Hitomi Otsuka, Aina Urdze.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Adamou, Evangelia,; Chamoreau, Claudine,; Igla, Birgit,; Johanson, Lars,; Loporcaro, Michele,; Marra, Antonietta,; Mithun, Marianne,; Otsuka, Hitomi,; Pinto, Immacolata,; Ralli, Angela,; Rose, Françoise,; Sechidou, Irene,; Stolz, Thomas,; Tosco, Mauro,; Urdze, Aina,; Vanhove, Martine,; Zajícová, Lenka,
• HerausgeberIn: Otsuka, Hitomi,; Stolz, Thomas,; Urdze, Aina,; Vanhove, Martine,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Akademie Verlag, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

Dieser Sammelband greift den Begriff der Kontaktmorphologie (Contact Morphology) auf, der 1996 von David Wilkins geprägt wurde. Bisher gehen die meisten Sprachkontaktstudien davon aus, dass morphologische Strukturen selten entlehnt werden, da eine Kopie morphologischer Strukturen einen intensiven und langandauernden Sprachkontakt mit vorausgehender massiver Entlehnung von Lexemen und Funktionswörtern voraussetzt. Arbeiten zu morphologischen Veränderungen sehen Sprachkontakt dagegen häufig als entscheidende Ursache für die Auflösung des morphologischen Systems an. Im vorliegenden Band wird untersucht, inwieweit diese Herangehensweisen der Phänomenologie der Kontaktmorphologie gerecht werden können. Die 14 Artikel geben Aufschluss über die Veränderung morphologischer Strukturen unter Sprachkontaktbedingungen. Es werden empirische Daten aus 40 Sprachen weltweit präsentiert und neue theoretische Konzepte diskutiert. Der Band markiert den Beginn eines internationalen Forschungsprogramms, das Morphologie im Sprachkontakt unter den unterschiedlichsten Blickwinkeln untersucht und so den Weg ebnet für die Etablierung von Kontaktmorphologie als eigenständige wissenschaftliche Disziplin.

This collection of articles takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David Wilkins in 1996. In the majority of contact-related studies, morphology is at best a marginal topic. According to the extant borrowing hierarchies, bound morphology is copied only rarely, if at all, because morphological copies presuppose long-term intensive contact with prior massive borrowing of content words and function words. On the other hand, especially in studies of morphological change, contact is often identified as the decisive factor which triggers the disintegration of morphological systems. However, it remains to be seen whether these two standard treatments of morphology in contact situations exhaust the phenomenology of Contact Morphology. The 14 papers of the present volume shed new light on the behavior of morphology under the conditions of language contact. Fresh empirical data from 40 languages world-wide are presented and new theory-based concepts are discussed. Morphologies in Contact is a first in the history of both morphology and language contact studies. It is meant to mark the beginning of an international research program which explores the entire range of aspects connected to morphologies in contact and thus, paves the way for a full-blown Contact Morphology qua linguistic discipline.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Preface -- Part I: Amerindia -- Part I: Amerindia -- Morphologies in contact: form, meaning, and use in the grammar of reference -- Part I: Amerindia -- Borrowing of a Cariban number marker into three Tupi-Guarani languages -- Part I: Amerindia -- Spanish diminutive markers -ito/-ita in Mesoamerican languages: a challenge for acceptance of gender distinction -- Part II: Austronesia -- Part II: Austronesia -- Survival in a niche. On gender-copy in Chamorro (and sundry languages) -- Part III: Balkan (and beyond) -- Part III: Balkan (and beyond) -- Verb morphologies in contact: evidence from the Balkan area* -- Part III: Balkan (and beyond) -- Romani in contact with Bulgarian and Greek: replication in verbal morphology -- Part III: Balkan (and beyond) -- Morphology in language contact: verbal loanblend formation in Asia Minor Greek (Aivaliot)* -- Part III: Balkan (and beyond) -- Mood meets mood: Turkic versus Indo-European -- Part IV: Romance -- Part IV: Romance -- Contact-induced change in personal pronouns: some Romance examples* -- Part IV: Romance -- The influence of loanwords on Sardinian word formation -- Part IV: Romance -- Swinging back the pendulum: French morphology and de-Italianization in Piedmontese -- Part V: Slavic (outside the Slavic core area) -- Part V: Slavic (outside the Slavic core area) -- Contact phenomena in the Slavic of Molise: some remarks about nouns and prepositional phrases* -- Part V: Slavic (outside the Slavic core area) -- Language contact, language decay and morphological change: evidence from the speech of Czech immigrants in Paraguay* -- Part VI: Africa -- Part VI: Africa -- Roots and patterns in Beja (Cushitic): the issue of language contact with Arabic -- Part VI: Africa -- Back Matter