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

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Language Contact and Grammatical Change

1. Overview of the grammar 2. The noun phrase 3. The verb phrase 4. VP-related functional categories 5. Subjects, topics and declarative constituent order 6. A'-movement and x movement through COMP.

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The Syntax of Spanish

1. Introduction 2. Phonology 3. Morpho-syntax 4. Lexis 5. Semantics 6. Past, present and future Glossary of technical terms Topics for discussion and further reading References Index.

A History of the Spanish Language

List of tables List of maps Preface Orthographic conventions List of abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. The Chibcha sphere 3. The Inca sphere 4. The languages of the eastern slopes 5. The Araucanian sphere 6. The languages of Tierra del Fuego 7. The Spanish presence Appendix: inventory of languages and language families of the Andean region References Author index Index of languages and ethnic groups Subject index.

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The Languages of the Andes

Left dislocated subjects and the pro-drop parameter: A case study of Spanish☆

Morfología histórica del español

Comme dans la plupart des domaines de la recherche, la linguistique a connu, et connait, de nombreuses ecoles, dont la partialite mene a des developpements, en profondeur, d'aspects non-negligeables des mecanismes des langues naturelles, mais qui, en contre-partie, isolent les phenomenes et excluent les interactions constantes entre les differentes composantes du fonctionnement du langage a travers ces langues.

	Cet ouvrage tente de preserver un equilibre entre les domaines qui en realite coexistent a tout moment de l'acte de langage, et dont il convient de tenir compte dans une perspective historique.

	Cette globalisation oblige a ne presenter que l'essentiel, a etablir des principes fondes sur quelques exemples, les analyses detaillees se trouvant dans les publications plus specialisees de l'auteur. Les representations visualisees et la terminologie y ont a la fois une valeur heuristique et une fonction pedagogique.

Bernard Pottier

Papers

Morfología histórica del español

Linguistique générale: théorie et description

Gramática del español

Théorie et analyse en linguistique

Systématique des éléments de relation