Susceptibility vs. resistance : case studies on different structural categories in language-contact situations / edited by Nataliya Levkovych.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levkovych, Nataliya, editor.

Series:

Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL)

Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) ; v.19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact.

Missions--Linguistic work.

Missions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston, MA : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

The series provides a platform for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics. This new sub-discipline of linguistics is inspired by work carried out within the framework of Missionary Linguistics and by recent discussion about language, linguistics and colonialism. KPL/CPL intends to make accessible and comment on textswhich are concerned with languages of the former European possessions in overseas and were written during the European colonial era.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

On the (almost im)possible emergence of grammatical gender in language-contact situations

Language contact and number inflection in Patagonian Welsh

VOY – PARA – SIEMPRE: Three Spanish-derived function words and the Chamorro irrealis

On the borrowing of the English adversative connector but

On loan conjunctions: A comparative study with special focus on the languages of the former Soviet Union

Parallel Romancization: Chamorro and Tetun Dili – two heavy borrowers compared

Index of Authors

Index of Languages

Index of Subjects

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Levkovych, Nataliya Susceptibility vs. Resistance

ISBN:

3-11-078551-X

OCLC:

1311326250