Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 313 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9780230287617
Content:
What are linguistic areas? How do we identify them? Does the study of linguistic areas require particularly tailored methodologies, or are linguistic areas simply ordinary cases of contact-induced change, amplified through several sets of contact situations? These and other questions form the core of the discussion presented in this collection. The authors address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyse the process of convergence, and introduce methods to assess the impact of language contact across geographical zones. New cases studies are introduced which extend the corpus of areas described so far. They are accompanied by discussions that revisit some of the better-established linguistic areas
Note:
Areal linguistics : a closer scrutiny / Lyle Campbell -- All or nothing / Thomas Stolz -- Keeping contact in the family : approaches to language classification and contact-induced change / April McMahon and Robert McMahon -- Linguistic areas, language contact and typology : some implications from the case of Ethiopia as a linguistic area / Walter Bisang -- Structural isoglosses between Khoekhoe and Tuu : the Cape as a linguistic area / Tom Güldemann -- The Sri Lanka Sprachbund : the newcomers Portuguese and Malay / Peter Bakker -- On the roles of Turkic in the Caucasus area / Lars Johanson -- The circle that won't come full : two potential isoglosses in the circum-Baltic area / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm -- Complex emotion predicates in eastern Indonesia : evidence for language contact? / Simon Musgrave -- Another look at Australia as a linguistic area / Claire Bowern -- Towards a typology of the Siberian linguistic area / Gregory D.S. Anderson
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-349-54544-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Arealtypologie
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Sprachtypologie
;
Sprachkontakt
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Matras, Yaron 1963-
