Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311019628X
• ISBN13: 9783110196283
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 605 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary