Areal convergence in Eastern Central European languages and beyond / / Luka Szucsich, Agnes Kim, Uliana Yazhinova (eds.).

• Superior document: Linguistik international ; Band 44
• TeilnehmendeR: Szucsich, Luka, 1968-; Kim, Agnes, 1987-; Yazhinova, Uliana, 1985-
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Peter Lang,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English; German
• Series: Linguistik international ; Band 44.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 pages).

This book assembles contributions dealing with language contact and areal linguistics. The goal of the book is to investigate linguistic convergence in Europe with a strong focus on the languages of Eastern Central Europe which show many remarkable similarities. The focus is put on a methodical and empirical component in the investigation of two or more languages in the context of possible language contact phenomena. Languages of Eastern Central Europe and adjacent parts of Europe use a considerable amount of common vocabulary due to the transfer of loanwords during a long period of cultural contact. But they also share several grammatical features—phonological, morphological and syntactic ones. This book tackles lexical and grammatical phenomena in language contact situations. The authors take up diachronic, synchronic and language acquisitional perspectives, and discuss methodological problems for the field.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Luka Szuscich, Agnes Kim, Uliana Yazhinova -- Does Verb Valency Pattern Areally in Central Europe? A First Look / Jerzy Gaszewski -- Central European Languages as a Complex Research Issue: Summarising and Broadening the Research Foci / Jiří Januška -- Prepositions in the Melting Pot: High Risk of Infection : Language Contact of German in Austria with Slavic Languages and Its Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Description / Agnes Kim -- Variation in Case Government of the Equivalent for the Cognitive Verb to Forget in German in Austria and Czech / Agnes Kim, Sebastian Scharf, Ivan Šimko -- Remarks on the Development of the Czech Modality System in Contact with German / František Martínek -- Linguistic Areas in East-Central Europe as the Result of Pluridimensional, Polycentric Convergence Phenomena / Stefan Michael Newerkla -- Loanwords in Bulgarian Core Vocabulary - a Pilot Study / Ivan Šimko & Emmerich Kelih -- On Different Ways of Belonging in Europe / Thomas Stolz & Nataliya Levkovych -- Burgenland Croatian as a Contact Language / Luka Szucsich -- Variation im Spracherwerb von Verben bei bilingualen Kindern (Russisch - Deutsch) / Anna Tetereva, Viktoria Naukhatskaia -- Hungarismen im Gemeindeutschen, österreichischen Deutsch, ostösterreichischen Dialekt und im Slawischen / Tamás Tölgyesi -- List of Figures -- List of Tables.