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Language contact, phonemic inventories, and the Athapaskan language family

Languages of the Athapaskan family were often in contact with languages of other families, and speakers were often bilingual (or multilingual)...

Keywords: areal linguistics, Athapaskan, bilingualism, borrowing, phoneme inventories, language contact

10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

Consonant inventories as an areal feature of the New Guinea-Pacific region: Testing Trudgill's hypotheses

Trudgill has proposed that the size of the phonological inventory for a language correlates with the extent of language contact, with isolated small languages having very small or large inventories, and provides evidence for his claim from the Pacific region...

Keywords: areal linguistics, Austronesian, borrowing, language contact, New Guinea, phoneme inventories, Polynesian

10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

Multifunctional agreement patterns in Bantu and the possibility of genderless nouns

It is generally assumed that all nouns belong to a gender in gender languages and that this constitutes a fundamental difference between gender systems and systems of noun classifiers...

Keywords: agreement, animacy, article, Bantu, borrowing, Eton, gender, kin term, noun class, number, proper name, referentiality

10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

The wolf in sheep's clothing: Camouflaged borrowing in Modern German

This article addresses a phenomenon of language contact that has not received much attention in mainstream contact linguistics, namely borrowing via a mechanism Zuckermann (2003) calls multisourced neologisation...

Keywords: language contact, Modern German, borrowing, phono-semantic matching, anglicisms