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Language Contact and Grammatical Change (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) by Bernd Heine; Tania Kuteva is a language available to read on EtoBox.
What is Language Contact and Grammatical Change (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) about?
The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers insight into the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another. The book will be of great interest to all working in grammaticalization, language contact, and language chan
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bernd Heine; Tania Kuteva
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521608282
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Language Learning, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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