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Degrammaticalization
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ISBN: 0199207933 9780199207930 9780199207923 0199207925 0191709131 9786612336560 1282336568 0191548936 9780191548932 9781282336568 6612336560 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Grammaticalization is a well-attested process of linguistic change in which a lexical item becomes a function word, which may be further reduced to a clitic or affix. Proponents of the universality of grammaticalization have usually argued that it is unidirectional and have thus found it a useful tool in linguistic reconstruction. In this book Prof Norde shows that change is reversible on all levels: semantic, morphological, syntactic, and phonological. As a consequence, the allegedunidirectionality of grammaticalization is not a reliable reconstructional tool, even if degrammaticalization is


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Language contact : new perspectives
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ISBN: 9789027218674 9027218676 9789027288431 9027288437 1282558641 9786612558641 9781282558649 6612558644 Year: 2010 Volume: 28 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new contact situations. This volume features ten papers on various aspects of language contact by leading specialists in the field. In these papers, contact-induced change in a wide variety of languages is approached from various perspectives, reflecting the current state of affairs in language contact studies. The first main theme in the volume is related to the linguistic effects of migration, both in the present and in the past, and both in the standard language spoken by ethnic minorities, and in immigrant languages that are influenced by the standard. The second theme concerns border areas, a traditional treasure trove for the study of contact phenomena. The third theme is about contact effects without physical contact, as well as the role played by translators in this process.

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