Klaus Beyer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Klaus Beyer plays a role.
Articles
2013 Intermingling speech groups: Morpho-syntactic outcomes of language contact in a linguistic area in Burkina Faso, West Africa The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings, Léglise, Isabelle and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 107–134 | Article
This paper investigates the outcomes of contact-induced language change in two neighboring speech groups (Pana and Northern Samo) in an African multilingual setting. It describes the historical and social conditions of the area as a prerequisite for the understanding of linguistic contact processes. read more
2009 Double negation-marking: A case of contact-induced grammaticalization in West Africa? Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond, Cyffer, Norbert, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), pp. 205–222 | Article
The paper presents data on a syntactic structure that combines two different markers to
express sentential negation in a wide variety of languages all over West-Africa. As
areal distribution of this ‘double negation-marking’ illustrates the non-genetic
character of the feature, an… read more