Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact

✍ Scribed by Björn Wiemer (editor); Bernhard Wälchli (editor); Björn Hansen (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 684
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 242
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization and language contact: grammatical replication and grammatical borrowability. The key issues are: How can grammatical replication be distinguished from other, superficially similar processes of contact-induced linguistic change, and under what conditions does it take place? Are there grammatical morphemes or constructions that are more easily borrowed than others, and how can language contact account for areal biases in the borrowing (vs. calquing) of grammatical formatives? The book is a major contribution to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the relationship between grammaticalization and language contact on a broad empirical basis.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Addresses of contributors
A. Introduction
1. Contact-induced grammatical change: Diverse phenomena, diverse perspectives
B. Survey on grammaticalization and language contact in Slavic languages
2. Assessing the range of contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavonic
C. General issues
3. An integrative model of grammaticalization
4. Processes of grammaticalisation and ‘borrowing the unborrowable’: Contact-induced change and the integration and grammaticalisation of borrowed terms for some core grammatical construction types
5. Grammaticalization clines in space: Zooming in on synchronic traces of diffusion processes
D. Noun phrase
6. The grammaticalization of an indefinite article in Slavic micro-languages
7. On the grammaticalization of the definite article in Colloquial Upper Sorbian (CUS)
E. Modality and evidentially
8. The grammaticalization of evidential markers in Garifuna
9. What is ‘contact-induced grammaticalization’? Examples from Mayan and Mixe-Zoquean languages
10. The Yiddish modal system between Germanic and Slavonic. A case study on the limits of contact induced grammaticalization
11. Modality in an areal context: The case of a Latgalian dialect
F. Tense-aspect and voice
12. The Balkan perfects: Grammaticalization and contact
13. The “recipient passive” in West Slavic: A caique from German and its grammaticalization
G. Clause linking and predication
14. Conditional and reason clauses in Sierra Popoluca: The influence of Náhuatl and Spanish
15. Verb serialization in northeast Europe: The case of Russian and its Finno-Ugric neighbours
Subject index
Language index
Author index