Linguistic Hybridity

Contact-induced and Cognitively Motivated Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes in Romance Languages


38,00 € *

1. Edition, 2022
229 Pages

ISBN: 978-3-8253-4936-3
Product: Book
Edition: Hardcover
Subject: Romanistik
Series: Studia Romanica, Volume No.: 232
Available: 07.11.2022

Keywords: Karibik, Sprachwandel, Sprachkontakt, Englisch, Italienisch, Deutsch, Russisch, romanische Sprachen, Spanisch, Sprachgeschichte, Linguistik, Grammatikalisierung, Sprachwissenschaft, Lateinamerika, Portugiesisch, Brasilien, Südamerika, Bedeutungswandel, Paraguay, Lexikalisierung, Kontaktlinguistik, Guaraní, Hybridisierung


This volume deals with different linguistic phenomena representing grammaticalization and lexicalization processes and combines different approaches of contact linguistics as well as variational linguistics. It contains papers on clitic placement in Angolan Portuguese, on the use of subject pronouns in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish, on evidential marking in Paraguayan Spanish, on Paraguayan Guaraní, on evidentiality in different varieties of Spanish, on discourse markers in Latin America, on modal particles in Italian and their translation into German, on bilingual communities in Southern Brazil, on Spanish-German-Russian language contact and on Romance aspectual periphrases in contact with English progressives.