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The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact SettingsEdited by Isabelle Léglise and Claudine Chamoreau
[Studies in Language Variation 12] 2013
► pp. 229–252
Change and variation in a trilingual setting
Evidentiality in Pomak (Slavic, Greece)
In Pomak (Greece), we attest to the loss of a morphologically overt expression of mediate information, passing through a stage of variation (determined by syntactic, semantic, and discursive criteria). This change takes place in a trilingual setting where the main contact language (Greek) has no grammaticalized form to express mediate information, while the second contact language (Turkish), has a verbal past paradigm specialized for evidentiality. This phenomenon is analyzed within a multiple causation approach in which language contact acts as a catalyst.
Keywords: Greek, language change, mediate information, multiple causation, Pomak, Turkish, variation
Published online: 12 March 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.12.09ada
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.12.09ada
