<p> 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 t
Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
β Scribed by Yaron Matras, Jeanette Sakel
- Publisher
- Mouton de Gruyter
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 608
- Series
- Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 38
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons