Susceptibility vs. Resistance : : Case Studies on Different Structural Categories in Language-Contact Situations /

Susceptibility vs. Resistance : : Case Studies on Different Structural Categories in Language-Contact Situations / / ed. by Nataliya Levkovych.

The topic of the volume is the contrast between borrowable categories and those which resist transfer. Resistance is illustrated for the unattested emergence of grammatical gender, the negligible impact of English and Spanish on the number category in Patagonian Welsh, the reluctance of replicas to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Arbes, Deborah,
Hober, Nicole,
Levkovych, Nataliya,
Stolz, Thomas,
HerausgeberIn:
Levkovych, Nataliya,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) , 19
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 482 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • On the (almost im)possible emergence of grammatical gender in language-contact situations
  • Language contact and number inflection in Patagonian Welsh
  • VOY – PARA – SIEMPRE: Three Spanish-derived function words and the Chamorro irrealis
  • On the borrowing of the English adversative connector but
  • On loan conjunctions: A comparative study with special focus on the languages of the former Soviet Union
  • Parallel Romancization: Chamorro and Tetun Dili – two heavy borrowers compared
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Subjects

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