Areal Convergence in Eastern Central European Languages and Beyond
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Areal Convergence in Eastern Central European Languages and Beyond
About This Book
This book assembles contributions dealing with language contact and areal linguistics. The goal of the book is to investigate linguistic convergence in Europe with a strong focus on the languages of Eastern Central Europe which show many remarkable similarities. The focus is put on a methodical and empirical component in the investigation of two or more languages in the context of possible language contact phenomena. Languages of Eastern Central Europe and adjacent parts of Europe use a considerable amount of common vocabulary due to the transfer of loanwords during a long period of cultural contact. But they also share several grammatical features—phonological, morphological and syntactic ones. This book tackles lexical and grammatical phenomena in language contact situations. The authors take up diachronic, synchronic and language acquisitional perspectives, and discuss methodological problems for the field.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Does Verb Valency Pattern Areally in Central Europe? A First Look
- Central European Languages as a Complex Research Issue: Summarising and Broadening the Research Foci
- Prepositions in the Melting Pot: High Risk of Infection. Language Contact of German in Austria with Slavic Languages and Its Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Description
- Variation in Case Government of the Equivalent for the Cognitive Verb to Forget in German in Austria and Czech
- Remarks on the Development of the Czech Modality System in Contact with German1
- Linguistic Areas in East-Central Europe as the Result of Pluridimensional, Polycentric Convergence Phenomena
- Loanwords in Bulgarian Core Vocabulary – a Pilot Study
- On Different Ways of Belonging in Europe
- Burgenland Croatian as a Contact Language
- Variation im Spracherwerb von Verben bei bilingualen Kindern (Russisch ‒ Deutsch)
- Hungarismen im Gemeindeutschen, österreichischen Deutsch, ostösterreichischen Dialekt und im Slawischen
- List of Figures
- List of Tables