Language Contact and Grammatical Change - Couverture souple

Heine, Bernd

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521608287 ISBN 13 : 9780521608282

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, 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 offers an interesting insight into the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another. Drawing on findings from languages all over the world, Language Contact and Grammatical Change shows that the transfer of linguistic material across languages is quite regular and follows universal patterns of grammaticalization - contrary to previous claims that it is a fairly irregular process - and argues that internal and external explanations of language structure and change are in no way mutually exclusive. Engaging and informative, this book will be of great interest to sociolinguists, linguistic anthropologists, and all those working on grammaticalization, language contact, and language change.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Bernd Heine is Professor of African Studies in the Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne.

Tania Kuteva is Professor of English Linguistics at the Institute for English and American Studies, University of Düsseldorf.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521608287
• ISBN 13: 9780521608282
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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