Morphologies in contact /

Dieser Sammelband greift den Begriff der Kontaktmorphologie (Contact Morphology) auf, der 1996 von David Wilkins gepr gt wurde. Bisher gehen die meisten Sprachkontaktstudien davon aus, dass morphologische Strukturen selten entlehnt werden, da ei

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Otsuka, Hitomi.; Stolz, Thomas.; Urdze, Aina.; Vanhove, Martine
Published: Akademie Verlag,
Publisher Address: Berlin :
Publication Dates: [2012]
©2012
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Studia typologica ; 10
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/9783050057699
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Summary: Dieser Sammelband greift den Begriff der Kontaktmorphologie (Contact Morphology) auf, der 1996 von David Wilkins gepr gt wurde. Bisher gehen die meisten Sprachkontaktstudien davon aus, dass morphologische Strukturen selten entlehnt werden, da ei
This collection of articles takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David Wilkins in 1996. In the majority of contact-related studies, morphology is at best a marginal topic. According to the extant borrowing hierarchies, bound morphology is copied only rarely, if at all, because morphological copies presuppose long-term intensive contact with prior massive borrowing of content words and function words. On the other hand, especially in studies of morphological change, contact is often identified as the decisive factor which triggers the disintegration of morphological systems. However, it remains to be seen whether these two standard treatments of morphology in contact situations exhaust the phenomenology of Contact Morphology. The 14 papers of the present volume shed new light on the behavior of morphology under the conditions of language contact. Fresh empirical data from 40 languages world-wide are presented and new theory-based concepts are discussed. Morphologies in Contact is a first in the history of both morphology and language contact studies. It is meant to mark the beginning of an international research program which explores the entire range of aspects connected to morphologies in contact and thus, paves the way for a full-blown Contact Morphology qua linguistic discipline.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(340pages)
ISBN: 9783050057699
Index Number: P241
CLC: H04
Contents: Front Matter --
Preface --
Part I: Amerindia --
Morphologies in contact: form, meaning, and use in the grammar of reference --
Borrowing of a Cariban number marker into three Tupi-Guarani languages --
Spanish diminutive markers -ito/-ita in Mesoamerican languages: a challenge for acceptance of gender distinction --
Part II: Austronesia --
Survival in a niche. On gender-copy in Chamorro (and sundry languages) --
Part III: Balkan (and beyond) --
Verb morphologies in contact: evidence from the Balkan area --
Romani in contact with Bulgarian and Greek: replication in verbal morphology --
Morphology in language contact: verbal loanblend formation in Asia Minor Greek (Aivaliot) --
Mood meets mood: Turkic versus Indo-European --
Part IV: Romance --
Contact-induced change in personal pronouns: some Romance examples --
The influence of loanwords on Sardinian word formation --
Swinging back the pendulum: French morphology and de-Italianization in Piedmontese --
Part V: Slavic (outside the Slavic core area) --
Contact phenomena in the Slavic of Molise: some remarks about nouns and prepositional phrases --
Language contact, language decay and morphological change: evidence from the speech of Czech immigrants in Paraguay --
Part VI: Africa --
Roots and patterns in Beja (Cushitic): the issue of language contact with Arabic --
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