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Between Separation and Symbiosis: South Eastern European Languages and Cultures in …
by Joseph, Brian D., Kisilier, Maxim L., Konior, Daria V., Kozak, Vyacheslav V., Makarova, Anastasia L., Morozova, Maria S., Rusakov, Alexander Yu, Sobolev, Andrey N.
fromLanguage contact and bilingualism
The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the Balkans (South East Europe) that present a continuum between ethnic and linguistic separation and symbiosis among groups of people. The studies in this volume achieve several aims: they critic…
Loan Phonology
For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is …
Conceptually, the volume focuses on the relationship of the three key notions that essentially triggered the inception and subsequent realization of this project, to wit, language contact, grammaticalization, and areal grouping. Fully concentrated on the areal-typological and hi…
Is grammatical gender merely stored as a syntactic property of nouns, or is it computed according to a noun's semantic, morphological and phonological properties every time it is required?In many languages, gender appears to resist systematic treatment and can even cause problem…
