Language Contact and Grammatical Change |
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| Author:
| Heine, Bernd
Kuteva, Tania |
| Contribution by:
| Mufwene, Salikoko S.
Chaudenson, Robert
Kachru, Braj
Milroy, Lesley
Poplack, Shana
Silverstein, Michael |
| Series title: | Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-60828-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $58.99 |
Book Description:
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The phenomenon of language contact has been of great interest to linguists. This study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another.
The phenomenon of language contact has been of great interest to linguists. This study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another.