Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact 9783110271973, 9783110270099

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

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Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact

Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 242

Editor

Volker Gast Founding Editor

Werner Winter Editorial Board

Walter Bisang Hans Henrich Hock Heiko Narrog Matthias Schlesewsky Niina Ning Zhang Editor responsible for this volume

Walter Bisang

De Gruyter Mouton

Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact edited by

Björn Wiemer Bernhard Wälchli Björn Hansen

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN 978-3-11-027009-9 e-ISBN 978-3-11-027197-3 ISSN 1861-4302 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. ” 2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Printing: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 앝 Printed on acid-free paper 앪 Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com

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