Language Contact and Grammatical Change

Bernd (Universitat zu Koln) Heine, Tania (Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf) Kuteva

Cambridge University Press, 2005

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The phenomenon of language contact has been of great interest to linguists. This study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another.

ISBN-13
9780521845748
ISBN-10
0521845742
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
Publication date
2005-01-27
Pages
328
Dimensions
160x236x27
Weight
640