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The changing languages of Europe / Bernd Heine & Tania Kuteva.

By:

Heine, Bernd, 1939- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Kuteva, Tania, 1958- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford linguisticsPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xvii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0199297339
9780199297337
0199297347
9780199297344

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

409.4 22

LOC classification:

P380 .H38 2006

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Contents:

Europe as a Linguistic Area -- Grammatical Replication -- The Rise of Articles -- The Rise of Possessive Perfects -- From Comitative to Instrumental Forms -- From Question to Subordination -- Europes Periphery.

Summary: "This book shows that the languages and dialects of Europe are becoming increasingly alike and furthermore that this unifying process goes back to Roman times, is accelerating, and affects every European language including those of different families such as Basque and Finnish. The unifyingprocess involves every grammatical aspect of the languages and operates through changes so minute that native speakers fail to notice them. The authors reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures have evolved and continue to evolve in processes of change that will transform thelinguistic landscape of Europe."--Publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-323) and index.

"This book shows that the languages and dialects of Europe are becoming increasingly alike and furthermore that this unifying process goes back to Roman times, is accelerating, and affects every European language including those of different families such as Basque and Finnish. The unifyingprocess involves every grammatical aspect of the languages and operates through changes so minute that native speakers fail to notice them. The authors reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures have evolved and continue to evolve in processes of change that will transform thelinguistic landscape of Europe."--Publisher description.

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