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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    13 November 2009
    27 January 2005
    ISBN:
    9780511614132
    9780521845748
    9780521608282
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511614132
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.622kg, 328 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.518kg, 328 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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    Subjects:
    Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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    The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, 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 offers an interesting insight into the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another. Drawing on findings from languages all over the world, Language Contact and Grammatical Change shows that the transfer of linguistic material across languages is quite regular and follows universal patterns of grammaticalization - contrary to previous claims that it is a fairly irregular process - and argues that internal and external explanations of language structure and change are in no way mutually exclusive. Engaging and informative, this book will be of great interest to sociolinguists, linguistic anthropologists, and all those working on grammaticalization, language contact, and language change.

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    '…[the book will become] a starting point for further investigation of the interplay between grammaticalization and language contact.'

    Source: Journal of Linguistics

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