Grammars in Contact: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 376
Series: Explorations in Linguistic Typology
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which sets out a general theory of contact-induced change, and twelve subsequent chapters, which analyze the effects of language contact on grammatical systems in a variety of languages belonging to different geographical areas and diverse types.

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