Aspects of Language Contact : : New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes /

Aspects of Language Contact : : New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes / / ed. by Thomas Stolz, Rosa Salas Palomo, Dik Bakker.

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This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field. In the first part of the volume, the focu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Bakker, Dik,
Bakker, Peter,
Dienst, Stefan,
Gómez Rendón, Jorge,
Haspelmath, Martin,
Hekking, Ewald,
Holm, John,
Matras, Yaron,
Moyse-Faurie, Claire,
Papen, Robert A.,
Renault-Lescure, Odile,
Rose, Françoise,
Sakel, Jeanette,
Stolz, Christel,
Stolz, Thomas,
Tosco, Mauro,
Wichmann, Søren,
Wildgen, Wolfgang,
Wohlgemuth, Jan,
Zimmermann, Klaus,
HerausgeberIn:
Bakker, Dik,
Salas Palomo, Rosa,
Stolz, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 35
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Physical Description:1 online resource (471 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Romancisation worldwide
  • Loanword typology: Steps toward a systematic
  • cross-linguistic study of lexical borrowability
  • Modelling contact-induced change in grammar
  • Loan verbs in a typological perspective
  • Why we need dynamic models for sociolinguistics and
  • language contact studies
  • Constructivist theory of language contact and the
  • Romancisation of indigenous languages
  • Spanish meets Guaraní, Otomí and Quichua: A
  • multilingual confrontation
  • French influence on the native languages of Canada
  • and adjacent USA
  • Portuguese influence on Kulina
  • Creolization and the fate of inflections
  • Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic
  • languages
  • Contact-induced changes in Amerindian languages of
  • French Guiana
  • A case of weak Romancisation: Italian in East
  • Africa
  • Loan word gender: A case of romancisation in
  • Standard German and related enclave varieties
  • Backmatter

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