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Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects ...
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  • 20 January 2014
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Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects of pre–existing structural congruency between the affected languages at the time of their initial contact, using the Romance and Slavic languages as examples. In contact of this kind, both genetic and typological similarities play a part.

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Price: $160.99
Pages: 418
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 20 January 2014
ISBN: 9783110338348
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LAN009010 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
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J. Besters-Dilger, C. Dermarkar, St. Pfänder, and A. Rabus, University of Freiburg, Germany.