The topic of the volume is the contrast between borrowable categories
and those which resist transfer. Resistance is illustrated for the
unattested emergence of grammatical gender, the negligible impact of
English and Spanish on the number category in Patagonian Welsh, the
reluctance of replicas to borrow English but. MAT-borrowing does not
imply the copying of rules as the Spanish function-words in the
Chamorro irrealis show. Chamorro and Tetun Dili look similar on
account of their contact-induced parallels. The languages of the
former USSR have borrowed largely identical sets of conjunctions from
Russian, Arabic, and Persian to converge in the domain of clause
linkage. Resistance against and susceptibility to transfer call for
further investigations to the benefit of language-contact theory.
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Case Studies on Different Structural Categories in Language-Contact Situations
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783110785548
Publisert
2022
Utgave
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Vendor
De Gruyter
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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