Language contact and grammatical change
Auteur :
Heine, Bernd / Kuteva, Tania
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521608282
Date de publication :
27 janv. 2005
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
480 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.