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Publication details [#47433]

Kuteva, Tania and Bernd Heine. 2005. Language Contact and Grammatical Change. Cambridge University Press. 326 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammatical change | grammaticalization | language change | language contact | language transfer

Annotation

This study explores how grammatical forms and structures change due to language contact, and highlights the mechanism that moves people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another.