Grammatical Borrowing In Cross-Linguistic Perspective

by Matras, Yaron

• ISBN13: 9783110196283
• ISBN10: 311019628X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-30
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

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 the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication).

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Types of loan: Matter and pattern	p. 15
The borrowability of structural categories	p. 31
Grammatical borrowing in Tasawaq	p. 75
Grammatical borrowing in K'abeena	p. 91
Grammatical borrowing in Likpe (Sekpele)	p. 107
Grammatical borrowing in Katanga Swahili	p. 123
Grammatical borrowing in Khuzistani Arabic	p. 137
Grammatical borrowing in Domari	p. 151
Grammatical borrowing in Kurdish (Northern Group)	p. 165
Arabic grammatical borrowing in Western Neo-Aramaic	p. 185
Grammatical borrowing in North-eastern Neo-Aramaic	p. 197
Grammatical borrowing in Macedonian Turkish	p. 215
Grammatical borrowing in Kildin Saami	p. 229
Grammatical borrowing in Yiddish	p. 245
Grammatical borrowing in Hungarian Rumungro	p. 261
Grammatical borrowing in Manange	p. 283
Grammatical borrowing in Indonesian	p. 301
Grammatical borrowing in Biak	p. 329
Sino-Vietnamese grammatical borrowing: An overview	p. 343
Recent grammatical borrowing into an Australian Aboriginal language: The case of Jaminjung and Kriol	p. 363
Grammatical borrowing in Rapanui	p. 387
Grammatical borrowing in Nahuatl	p. 403
Grammatical borrowing in Yaqui	p. 419
The case of Otomi: A contribution to grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective	p. 435
Grammatical borrowing in Purepecha	p. 465
Grammatical borrowing in Imbabura Quichua (Ecuador)	p. 481
Grammatical borrowing in Paraguayan Guarani	p. 523
Grammatical borrowing in Hup	p. 551
Moseten borrowing from Spanish	p. 567
Index of subjects	p. 581
Index of authors	p. 594
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