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This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth, it traces the spread of the periphrastic perfect across Europe over the last 2,500 years, illustrating at each stage the micro-responses of speakers and communities to macro-historical pressures. Among the key forces claimed to be responsible for normative innovations in both eastern and western Europe is 'roofing' - the superstratal influence of Greek and Latin on languages under the influence of Greek Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism respectively. The author provides a new interpretation of the notion of 'sprachbund', presenting the model of a three-dimensional stratified convergence zone, and applies this model to her analysis of the have and be perfects within the Charlemagne sprachbund. The book also tackles broader theoretical issues, for example, demonstrating that the perfect tense should not be viewed as a universal category.--

Historical linguistics --- Grammar --- Sociolinguistics --- Europe --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Languages in contact. --- Multilingualism. --- Europe. --- Language and languages

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Grammar --- Comparative linguistics --- Classical Latin language --- Europe

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The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization and language contact: grammatical replication and grammatical borrowability. The key issues are: How can grammatical replication be distinguished from other, superficially similar processes of contact-induced linguistic change, and under what conditions does it take place? Are there grammatical morphemes or constructions that are more easily borrowed than others, and how can language contact account for areal biases in the borrowing (vs. calquing) of grammatical formatives? The

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization -- Congresses. --- Languages in contact -- Congresses. --- Linguistic change -- Congresses. --- Linguistics -- Congresses. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Languages in contact --- Linguistic change --- Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Grammaticalization --- Linguistique --- Grammaticalisation --- Langues en contact --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Grammar, Comparative --- Philology --- Historical linguistics --- Grammaticalization. --- Language Contact.

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