A Corpus-Driven Approach to Language Contact: Endangered Languages in a Comparative Perspective 9781614516576, 9781614517610

A Corpus-Driven Approach to Language Contact: Endangered Languages in a Comparative Perspective 9781614516576, 9781614517610

This book proposes a corpus-driven approach to language contact based on the study of endangered languages. Drawing on v

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Language Change and Language Structure: Older Germanic Languages in a Comparative Perspective 9783110886573, 9783110135381

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Heritage Languages : A Language Contact Approach [1 ed.] 9789027261762, 9789027204714

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant

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A Historical Approach to Casuistry: Norms and Exceptions in a Comparative Perspective

Casuistry, the practice of resolving moral problems by applying a logical framework, has had a much larger historical pr

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A Historical Approach to Casuistry: Norms and Exceptions in a Comparative Perspective 9781350006751, 9781350006782, 9781350006775

Casuistry, the practice of resolving moral problems by applying a logical framework, has had a much larger historical pr

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Language Contact : A Multidimensional Perspective [1 ed.] 9781443867429, 9781443844017

Since the inception of modern contact linguistics through the works of Weinreich (1953) and Haugen (1953), numerous inve

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Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages 9783110813302, 9783110143355

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Typological and social constraints on language contact. Amerindian languages in contact with Spanish [1-2] 9789078328629

Summary The present study deals with linguistic borrowing in Latin America from the perspective of typology and sociolin

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OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction 2020048726, 2020048727, 9789027208156, 9789027260284

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Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook 9783110218442, 9783110218435

This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative

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