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Investigating grammatical borrowing in Moseten through historical sources (2023)
Book Chapter
Sakel, J. (in press). Investigating grammatical borrowing in Moseten through historical sources. In E. Gibson, & M. Poliak (Eds.), From fieldwork to linguistic theory: A tribute to Dan Everett. Berlin: Language Science Press

Using historical sources (1804-1913), this paper investigates the influence of Span-ish on the grammar of modern Mosetén, an indigenous language spoken in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and the adjoining Amazon basin. Focusing on the categories... Read More about Investigating grammatical borrowing in Moseten through historical sources.

Types of loan: Matter and pattern (2007)
Book Chapter
Sakel, J. (2007). Types of loan: Matter and pattern. In Y. Matras, & J. Sakel (Eds.), Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (15-30). Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199192.15

A central concern of contact linguistics has long been to categorize the ways in which elements are borrowed from one language into another. For this pur-pose Matras and Sakel (2004) introduced the terms matter (MAT) and pattern(PAT) in the questionn... Read More about Types of loan: Matter and pattern.

The verbness markers of Mosetén from a typological perspective (2007)
Book Chapter
Sakel, J. (2007). The verbness markers of Mosetén from a typological perspective. In B. Wälchli, & M. Miestamo (Eds.), New Challenges in Typology (315-336). Mouton de Gruyter

This contribution appeared in a collection of articles by young typologists. It is a typological analysis of the system of complex predicates in Mosetén, in particular focussing on the verbness markers and their development. The author discusses the... Read More about The verbness markers of Mosetén from a typological perspective.