All Outputs (28)
Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence (2007)
Journal Article
This publication is an important contribution to language contact theory. Taking a typological perspective to contact-induced change, the authors investigate the ways in which grammatical structures from one language can be integrated into another. T... Read More about Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence.
Language contact between Spanish and Mosetén: A study of grammatical integration (2007)
Journal Article
This publication is a comprehensive study of the grammatical elements borrowed from Spanish into Mosetén. The author addresses the ways in which these elements are integrated, divides them into different groups of elements and compares how these rela... Read More about Language contact between Spanish and Mosetén: A study of grammatical integration.
The verbness markers of Mosetén from a typological perspective (2007)
Book Chapter
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.
Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence* (2007)
Journal Article
The replication of concrete formal-structural material (morpho-phonological forms with attached meanings) from one language in another is universally understood to instantiate grammatical and lexical 'borrowing' (we follow mainstream usage here and a... Read More about Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence*.
Language contact between Spanish and Mosetén: A study of grammatical integration (2007)
Journal Article
Mosetén (Mosetenan) is spoken by approximately 800 people in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes. All of the speakers are bilingual in Spanish and Mosetén. Spanish is highly dominant and as expected, Mosetén has borrowed many structures from this lan... Read More about Language contact between Spanish and Mosetén: A study of grammatical integration.
A grammar of Mosetén (2004)
Book
This book provides the first published and accessible grammatical description of a Mosetenan language. The authors carried out extensive fieldwork on the language, and the grammar is based on text data such as stories and discussions, as well as elic... Read More about A grammar of Mosetén.