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Calquing and Metatypy by bilgitsaglam is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The article discusses the linguistic phenomenon of metatypy, which involves the restructuring of morphosyntactic constructions in a bilingual community based on another language. The author, Malcolm Ross, aims to clarify the distinction between metatypy and related processes such as calquing and grammatical borrowing, using the Austronesian language Takia as a primary example. Through detailed analysis, the paper illustrates how Takia has undergone significant syntactic changes influenced by a neighboring P

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