Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

✍ Scribed by Yaron Matras (editor); Jeanette Sakel (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 608
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]; 38
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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).

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Types of loan: Matter and pattern
The borrowability of structural categories
Grammatical borrowing in Tasawaq
Grammatical borrowing in K’abeena
Grammatical borrowing in Likpe (Sɛkpɛlé)
Grammatical borrowing in Katanga Swahili
Grammatical borrowing in Khuzistani Arabic
Grammatical borrowing in Domari
Grammatical borrowing in Kurdish (Northern Group)
Arabic grammatical borrowing in Western Neo-Aramaic
Grammatical borrowing in North-eastern Neo-Aramaic
Grammatical borrowing in Macedonian Turkish
Grammatical borrowing in Kildin Saami
Grammatical borrowing in Yiddish
Grammatical borrowing in Hungarian Rumungro
Grammatical borrowing in Manange
Grammatical borrowing in Indonesian
Grammatical borrowing in Biak
Sino-Vietnamese grammatical borrowing: An overview
Recent grammatical borrowing into an Australian Aboriginal language: The case of Jaminjung and Kriol
Grammatical borrowing in Rapanui
Grammatical borrowing in Nahuatl
Grammatical borrowing in Yaqui
The case of Otomi: A contribution to grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective
Grammatical borrowing in Purepecha
Grammatical borrowing in Imbabura Quichua (Ecuador)
Grammatical borrowing in Paraguayan Guaraní
Grammatical borrowing in Hup
Mosetén borrowing from Spanish
Backmatter