The Diachrony of Written Language Contact: A Contrastive Approach

by Nikolaos Lavidas and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Nobody can deny that an account of grammatical change that takes written contact into consideration is a significant challenge for any theoretical perspective. Written contact of earlier periods or from a diachronic perspective mainly refers to contact through translation. The present book includes a diachronic dimension in the study of written language contact by examining aspects of the history of translation as related to grammatical changes in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004463755
• ISBN13: 9789004463752
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 396 Pages