Morphologies in Contact

Published by Akademie Verlag 2012

Morphologies in Contact

Edited by: Martine Vanhove , Thomas Stolz , Aina Urdze and Hitomi Otsuka

Volume 10 in the series Studia Typologica [STTYP]

https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050057699

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About this book

This collection of articles takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David Wilkins in 1996. In the majority of contact-related studies, morphology is at best a marginal topic. According to the extant borrowing hierarchies, bound morphology is copied only rarely, if at all, because morphological copies presuppose long-term intensive contact with prior massive borrowing of content words and function words. On the other hand, especially in studies of morphological change, contact is often identified as the decisive factor which triggers the disintegration of morphological systems. However, it remains to be seen whether these two standard treatments of morphology in contact situations exhaust the phenomenology of Contact Morphology. The 14 papers of the present volume shed new light on the behavior of morphology under the conditions of language contact. Fresh empirical data from 40 languages world-wide are presented and new theory-based concepts are discussed. Morphologies in Contact is a first in the history of both morphology and language contact studies. It is meant to mark the beginning of an international research program which explores the entire range of aspects connected to morphologies in contact and thus, paves the way for a full-blown Contact Morphology qua linguistic discipline.

Author / Editor information

- Prof Martine Vanhove, Research Director at CNRS, Paris - Prof. Thomas Stolz, PhD, Department of Language Sciences, University of Bremen - Dr Aina Urdze, Research Assistant at the Department of Language Sciences, University of Bremen - M.A. Hitomi Otsuka, Research Assistant at the Department of Language Sciences, University of Bremen

Reviews

„This volume is particularly appealing for those looking for empirical studies on morphology and language contact and it provides a direction for future research in that area.“ Christopher Batteen, in: linguist list, 2. Februar 2013 http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-613.html "This volume is particularly appealing for those looking for empirical studies on morphology and language contact and it provides a direction for future research in that area." Christopher Batteen on: LINGUISTLIST, Feb 2, 2013 http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-613.html

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Front Matter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Preface Martine Vanhove, Thomas Stolz, Aina Urdze and Hitomi Otsuka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Part I: Amerindia
Part I: Amerindia
Morphologies in contact: form, meaning, and use in the grammar of reference Marianne Mithun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Part I: Amerindia
Borrowing of a Cariban number marker into three Tupi-Guarani languages Françoise Rose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Part I: Amerindia
Spanish diminutive markers -ito/-ita in Mesoamerican languages: a challenge for acceptance of gender distinction Claudine Chamoreau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Part II: Austronesia
Part II: Austronesia
Survival in a niche. On gender-copy in Chamorro (and sundry languages) Thomas Stolz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Part III: Balkan (and beyond)
Part III: Balkan (and beyond)
Verb morphologies in contact: evidence from the Balkan area^* Evangelia Adamou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Part III: Balkan (and beyond)
Romani in contact with Bulgarian and Greek: replication in verbal morphology Birgit Igla and Irene Sechidou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Part III: Balkan (and beyond)
Morphology in language contact: verbal loanblend formation in Asia Minor Greek (Aivaliot)^* Angela Ralli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Part III: Balkan (and beyond)
Mood meets mood: Turkic versus Indo-European Lars Johanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Part IV: Romance
Part IV: Romance
Contact-induced change in personal pronouns: some Romance examples^* Michele Loporcaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Part IV: Romance
The influence of loanwords on Sardinian word formation Immacolata Pinto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Part IV: Romance
Swinging back the pendulum: French morphology and de-Italianization in Piedmontese Mauro Tosco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Part V: Slavic (outside the Slavic core area)
Part V: Slavic (outside the Slavic core area)
Contact phenomena in the Slavic of Molise: some remarks about nouns and prepositional phrases^* Antonietta Marra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Part V: Slavic (outside the Slavic core area)
Language contact, language decay and morphological change: evidence from the speech of Czech immigrants in Paraguay^* Lenka Zajícová Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Part VI: Africa
Part VI: Africa
Roots and patterns in Beja (Cushitic): the issue of language contact with Arabic Martine Vanhove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Part VI: Africa
Back Matter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327

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Language: English
Publisher: Akademie Verlag
Audience: Das Buch richtet sich an Sprachwissenschaftler.
Pages
- Main content: 340
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 7

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Published: December 4, 2012
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Published: February 8, 2012
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