Language Contact and Grammatical Change

摘要: The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure languages, has been great interest to linguists. This study looks at grammatical forms structures evolve when speakers two languages come into offers an interesting insight mechanism that induces people transfer from one another. Drawing on findings all over world, Language Contact Grammatical Change shows linguistic material across is quite regular follows universal patterns grammaticalization - contrary previous claims a fairly irregular process argues internal external explanations change are in no way mutually exclusive. Engaging informative, this book will be sociolinguists, anthropologists, those working grammaticalization, change.