Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective / / ed. by Yaron Matras, Jeanette Sakel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Alves, Mark J.,; Ameka, Felix K.,; Arnold, Werner,; Bakker, Dik,; Canger, Una,; Chamoreau, Claudine,; Crass, Joachim,; Elšík, Viktor,; Epps, Patience,; Fernández, Zarina Estrada,; Fischer, Steven Roger,; Guerrero, Lilián,; Gómez-Rendón, Jorge,; Haig, Geoffrey,; Hekking, Ewald,; Heuvel, Wilco,; Hildebrandt, Kristine A.,; Jensen, Anne,; Khan, Geoffrey,; Kossmann, Maarten,; Matras, Yaron,; Reershemius, Gertrud,; Rießler, Michael,; Rooij, Vincent A.,; Sakel, Jeanette,; Schultze-Berndt, Eva,; Shabibi, Maryam,; Tadmor, Uri,; Tufan, Şirin,
• HerausgeberIn: Matras, Yaron,; Sakel, Jeanette,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 38
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (598 p.)

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).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Types of loan: Matter and pattern -- The borrowability of structural categories -- Grammatical borrowing in Tasawaq -- Grammatical borrowing in K abeena -- Grammatical borrowing in Likpe (Sɛkpɛlé) -- Grammatical borrowing in Katanga Swahili -- Grammatical borrowing in Khuzistani Arabic -- Grammatical borrowing in Domari -- Grammatical borrowing in Kurdish (Northern -- Group) -- Arabic grammatical borrowing in Western -- Neo-Aramaic -- Grammatical borrowing in North-eastern -- Neo-Aramaic -- Grammatical borrowing in Macedonian Turkish -- Grammatical borrowing in Kildin Saami -- Grammatical borrowing in Yiddish -- Grammatical borrowing in Hungarian Rumungro -- Grammatical borrowing in Manange -- Grammatical borrowing in Indonesian -- Grammatical borrowing in Biak -- Sino-Vietnamese grammatical borrowing: An -- overview -- Recent grammatical borrowing into an Australian -- Aboriginal language: The case of Jaminjung and Kriol -- Grammatical borrowing in Rapanui -- Grammatical borrowing in Nahuatl -- Grammatical borrowing in Yaqui -- The case of Otomi: A contribution to grammatical -- borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective -- Grammatical borrowing in Purepecha -- Grammatical borrowing in Imbabura Quichua -- (Ecuador) -- Grammatical borrowing in Paraguayan Guaraní -- Grammatical borrowing in Hup -- Mosetén borrowing from Spanish -- Backmatter