Language Contact in Europe by Bridget Drinka
This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth, it traces the spread of the periphrastic perfect across Europe over the last 2,500 years, illustrating at each stage the micro-responses of speakers and communities to macro-historical pressures. Among the key forces claimed to be responsible for normative innovations in both eastern and western Europe is 'roofing' - the superstratal influence of Greek and Latin on languages under the influence of Greek Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism respectively. The author provides a new interpretation of the notion of 'sprachbund', presenting the model of a three-dimensional stratified convergence zone, and applies this model to her analysis of the have and be perfects within the Charlemagne sprachbund. The book also tackles broader theoretical issues, for example, demonstrating that the perfect tense should not be viewed as a universal category.-
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Contact Languages
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Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific
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The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars
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The Bilingual Child
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The Ecology of Language Evolution
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Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa
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Complexity in Language
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World Englishes and Culture Wars
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Diglossia and Language Contact
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The Lingua Franca
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Language Contact and Grammatical Change
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Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
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Postcolonial English
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Bilingual Language Acquisition
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A Linguistic Geography of Africa
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Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact
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Liquid Languages
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Dynamics of Language Contact
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Translingual Practices
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Voices of Immigration
Bridget Drinka is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of English at the University of Texas, San Antonio. She has taught at a number of universities worldwide, and has written extensively on Indo-European temporal-aspectual categories, cladistic models of language relationship, stratification as a mapping tool, the 'sacral stamp' of Greek, and on other topics related to her interest in Indo-European, historical, and socio-historical linguistics. She serves as President of the International Society for Historical Linguistics, and as Associate Editor of Folia Linguistica Historica.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108731911 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108731910 |
| Title | Language Contact in Europe |
| Author | Bridget Drinka |
| Series | Cambridge Approaches To Language Contact |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2019-08-15 |
| Number of pages | 505 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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