附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-299) and indexes.
The framework -- On replicating use patterns -- Grammaticalization -- Typological change -- On linguistic areas -- Limits of replication.
摘要:The phenomenon of language contact has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another.
