Linguistic Hybridity

Contact-induced and Cognitively Motivated Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes in Romance Languages

edited by Anja Hennemann and Benjamin Meisnitzer

Book cover: Linguistic Hybridity

Extent: 229 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: Language & Linguistics

Series: Studia Romanica

Series volume number: 232

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2022)

ISBN: 9783825349363

6.5 x 9.65 inches

Price: $49.00

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This volume deals with different linguistic phenomena representing grammaticalization and lexicalization processes and combines different approaches of contact linguistics and variational linguistics. It contains papers on clitic placement in Angolan Portuguese, on the use of subject pronouns in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish, on evidential marking in Paraguayan Spanish, on Paraguayan Guarani, on evidentiality in different varieties of Spanish, on discourse markers in Latin America, on modal particles in Italian and their translation into German, on bilingual communities in Southern Brazil, on Spanish-German-Russian language contact and on Romance aspectual periphrases in contact with English progressives.

  • Edited by Anja Hennemann
  • Edited by Benjamin Meisnitzer