Linguistic Hybridity : Contact-induced and Cognitively Motivated Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes in Romance Languages

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Title: Linguistic Hybridity : Contact-induced and Cognitively Motivated Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes in Romance Languages
Description: This volume deals with different linguistic phenomena representing grammaticalization and lexicalization processes and combines different approaches of contact linguistics as well as variational linguistics. It contains papers on clitic placement in Angolan Portuguese, on the use of subject pronouns in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish, on evidential marking in Paraguayan Spanish, on Paraguayan Guaraní, on evidentiality in different varieties of Spanish, on discourse markers in Latin America, on modal particles in Italian and their translation into German, on bilingual communities in Southern Brazil, on Spanish-German-Russian language contact and on Romance aspectual periphrases in contact with English progressives.
Authors: Anja Hennemann, Benjamin Meisnitzer
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Romance languages--Variation, Languages in contact, Romance languages--Lexicology, Romance languages--Grammaticalization, Romance languages--Word formation
Categories: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:This volume deals with different linguistic phenomena representing grammaticalization and lexicalization processes and combines different approaches of contact linguistics as well as variational linguistics. It contains papers on clitic placement in Angolan Portuguese, on the use of subject pronouns in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish, on evidential marking in Paraguayan Spanish, on Paraguayan Guaraní, on evidentiality in different varieties of Spanish, on discourse markers in Latin America, on modal particles in Italian and their translation into German, on bilingual communities in Southern Brazil, on Spanish-German-Russian language contact and on Romance aspectual periphrases in contact with English progressives.
ISBN:9783825349363
9783825385620