Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact / ed. by Björn Wiemer, Björn Hansen, Bernhard Wälchli.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 242Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (670 p.) : 15 KartenContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9783110270099
  • 9783110271973
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • P299.G73 G43 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Addresses of contributors -- A. Introduction -- 1. Contact-induced grammatical change: Diverse phenomena, diverse perspectives -- B. Survey on grammaticalization and language contact in Slavic languages -- 2. Assessing the range of contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavonic -- C. General issues -- 3. Anintegrative model ofgrammaticalization -- 4. Processes of grammaticalisation and ‘borrowing the unborrowable’: Contact-induced change and the integration and grammaticalisation of borrowed terms for some core grammatical construction types -- 5. Grammaticalization clines in space: Zooming in on synchronic traces of diffusion processes -- D. Noun phrase -- 6. The grammaticalization of an indefinite article in Slavic micro-languages -- 7. On the grammaticalization of the definite article in Colloquial Upper Sorbian (CUS) -- E. Modality and evidentiality -- 8. The grammaticalization of evidential markersin Garifuna -- 9. What is ‘contact-induced grammaticalization’? Examples from Mayan and Mixe-Zoquean languages -- 10. The Yiddish modal system between Germanic and Slavonic. A case study on the limits of contact induced grammaticalization -- 11. Modality in an areal context: The case of a Latgalian dialect -- F. Tense-aspect and voice -- 12. The Balkan perfects: Grammaticalization and contact -- 13. The “recipient passive” in West Slavic: A calque from German and its grammaticalization -- G. Clause linking and predication -- 14. Conditional and reason clauses in Sierra Popoluca: The influence of Náhuatl and Spanish -- 15. Verb serialization in northeast Europe: The case of Russian and its Finno-Ugric neighbours -- Subject index -- Language index -- Author index
Summary: The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization and language contact: grammatical replication and grammatical borrowability. The key issues are: How can grammatical replication be distinguished from other, superficially similar processes of contact-induced linguistic change, and under what conditions does it take place? Are there grammatical morphemes or constructions that are more easily borrowed than others, and how can language contact account for areal biases in the borrowing (vs. calquing) of grammatical formatives? The book is a major contribution to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the relationship between grammaticalization and language contact on a broad empirical basis.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110271973

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Addresses of contributors -- A. Introduction -- 1. Contact-induced grammatical change: Diverse phenomena, diverse perspectives -- B. Survey on grammaticalization and language contact in Slavic languages -- 2. Assessing the range of contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavonic -- C. General issues -- 3. Anintegrative model ofgrammaticalization -- 4. Processes of grammaticalisation and ‘borrowing the unborrowable’: Contact-induced change and the integration and grammaticalisation of borrowed terms for some core grammatical construction types -- 5. Grammaticalization clines in space: Zooming in on synchronic traces of diffusion processes -- D. Noun phrase -- 6. The grammaticalization of an indefinite article in Slavic micro-languages -- 7. On the grammaticalization of the definite article in Colloquial Upper Sorbian (CUS) -- E. Modality and evidentiality -- 8. The grammaticalization of evidential markersin Garifuna -- 9. What is ‘contact-induced grammaticalization’? Examples from Mayan and Mixe-Zoquean languages -- 10. The Yiddish modal system between Germanic and Slavonic. A case study on the limits of contact induced grammaticalization -- 11. Modality in an areal context: The case of a Latgalian dialect -- F. Tense-aspect and voice -- 12. The Balkan perfects: Grammaticalization and contact -- 13. The “recipient passive” in West Slavic: A calque from German and its grammaticalization -- G. Clause linking and predication -- 14. Conditional and reason clauses in Sierra Popoluca: The influence of Náhuatl and Spanish -- 15. Verb serialization in northeast Europe: The case of Russian and its Finno-Ugric neighbours -- Subject index -- Language index -- Author index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization and language contact: grammatical replication and grammatical borrowability. The key issues are: How can grammatical replication be distinguished from other, superficially similar processes of contact-induced linguistic change, and under what conditions does it take place? Are there grammatical morphemes or constructions that are more easily borrowed than others, and how can language contact account for areal biases in the borrowing (vs. calquing) of grammatical formatives? The book is a major contribution to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the relationship between grammaticalization and language contact on a broad empirical basis.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)