| Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective Contributor(s): Matras, Yaron (Editor), Sakel, Jeanette (Editor) |
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ISBN: 311019628X ISBN-13: 9783110196283 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $179.54 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative |
| Dewey: 410 |
| LCCN: 2007042917 |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.26 lbs) 605 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication). |