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The interplay of variation and change in contact settings / edited by Isabelle Léglise, Claudine Chamoreau.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in Language Variation
- Studies in language variation, 1872-9592 ; v. 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Languages in contact.
- Language and languages--Variation.
- Language and languages.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphosyntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Pomak (Greece), we attest to the loss of a morphologically overt expression of mediate information, passing through a stage of variation (determined by syntactic, semantic, and discursive criteria). This change takes place in a trilingual setting where the main contact language (Greek) has no grammaticalized form to express mediate information, while the second contact language (Turkish), has a verbal past paradigm specialized for evidentiality. This phenomenon is analyzed within a multiple causation approach in which language contact acts as a catalyst.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Types and outcomes of variation in multilingual settings
- pt. 2. The role of ongoing variation in contact-induced change.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-24101-8
- 90-272-7248-4
- OCLC:
- 830165323
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