ISBN:
9789027270474
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9027270473
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 206 pages)
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illustrations, maps.
Series Statement:
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory 0304-0763 volume 328
Series Statement:
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory volume 328
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Law, Danny, 1980- Language contact, inherited similarity and social difference
DDC:
306.440972
Keywords:
Mayan languages Social aspects
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Languages in contact
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Sociolinguistics
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Mayan languages Social aspects
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Languages in contact Maya
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Mayan languages Social aspects
;
Sociolinguistics
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Languages in contact
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the direct borrowing of inflectional morphology, including, in some of these languages, the direct borrowing of even entire morphological paradigms. The in-depth analysis of contact among the genetically related Lowland Mayan languages presented in this volume serves as a highly relevant case for theoretica
Note:
6.4 The progressive with *iyuwal. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-203) and index. - Print version record
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