Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective / edited by Yaron Matras, Jeanette Sakel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matras, Yaron, 1963-

Sakel, Jeanette, 1973-

Series:

Empirical approaches to language typology ; 38.

Empirical approaches to language typology ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Foreign elements.

Language and languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (608 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Types of loan: Matter and pattern

The borrowability of structural categories

Grammatical borrowing in Tasawaq

Grammatical borrowing in K abeena

Grammatical borrowing in Likpe (Sɛkpɛlé)

Grammatical borrowing in Katanga Swahili

Grammatical borrowing in Khuzistani Arabic

Grammatical borrowing in Domari

Grammatical borrowing in Kurdish (Northern Group)

Arabic grammatical borrowing in Western Neo-Aramaic

Grammatical borrowing in North-eastern Neo-Aramaic

Grammatical borrowing in Macedonian Turkish

Grammatical borrowing in Kildin Saami

Grammatical borrowing in Yiddish

Grammatical borrowing in Hungarian Rumungro

Grammatical borrowing in Manange

Grammatical borrowing in Indonesian

Grammatical borrowing in Biak

Sino-Vietnamese grammatical borrowing: An overview

Recent grammatical borrowing into an Australian Aboriginal language: The case of Jaminjung and Kriol

Grammatical borrowing in Rapanui

Grammatical borrowing in Nahuatl

Grammatical borrowing in Yaqui

The case of Otomi: A contribution to grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective

Grammatical borrowing in Purepecha

Grammatical borrowing in Imbabura Quichua (Ecuador)

Grammatical borrowing in Paraguayan Guaraní

Grammatical borrowing in Hup

Mosetén borrowing from Spanish

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612194726

9781282194724

1282194720

9783110199192

311019919X

OCLC:

437233360