| Language Contact and Grammatical Change Contributor(s): Heine, Bernd (Author), Kuteva, Tania (Author), Bernd, Heine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521845742 ISBN-13: 9780521845748 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $88.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers insight into the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another. The book will be of great interest to all working in grammaticalization, language contact, and language change. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 306.446 |
| LCCN: 2004054601 |
| Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.43 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kuteva, Tania: - Tania Kuteva is Professor of English Linguistics at the Institute for English and American Studies, University of Dusseldorf.Heine, Bernd: - Bernd Heine is Professor of African Studies in the Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne. |