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Publication details [#56874]

Siegel, Jeff. 2012. Two Types of Functional Transfer in Language Contact. Journal of language contact 5 (2) : 187–215.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

functional explanation | language contact | language transfer | morpheme | second language acquisition

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This paper explores two distinct types of functional language transfer in language contact, one that induces morphological augmentation whereas the second entails functional alteration of an existing morpheme and generally emerges in L2 acquisition.