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Publication details [#52441]
Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Erin Shay. 2008. Language-Internal versus Contact-Induced Change: The Split Coding of Person and Number: A Stefan Elders Question. Journal of language contact thema II : 274–296. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Brill
Annotation
This paper adds to the methodology for defining whether a given linguistic feature results from language contact or from language-internal grammaticalization. It thereto explores the presence of a typologically rare phenomenon in neighboring but unrelated languages in a small area of Northern Cameroon: the split coding of subject person and number, in which a verb preceding pronoun codes only person.