Language Contact and Grammatical Change

by Bernd Heine

2020-12-29 09:05:21

The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages ... Read more
The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers insight into the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another. The book will be of great interest to all working in grammaticalization, language contact, and language change. Less

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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 1.02 in
Print pages328
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date January 27, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521845748
Author
Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies (Institut für Afrikanistik), University of Cologne. His many publications include Cognitive Foundations of Grammar (OUP USA, 1997...

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