A case of weak Romancisation: Italian in East Africa

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xiii
3. Romancisation worldwide 1
4. Loanword typology: Steps toward a systematic cross-linguistic study of lexical borrowability 43
5. Modelling contact-induced change in grammar 63
6. Loan verbs in a typological perspective 89
7. Why we need dynamic models for sociolinguistics and language contact studies 123
8. Constructivist theory of language contact and the Romancisation of indigenous languages 141
9. Spanish meets Guaraní, Otomí and Quichua: A multilingual confrontation 165
10. French influence on the native languages of Canada and adjacent USA 239
11. Portuguese influence on Kulina 287
12. Creolization and the fate of inflections 299
13. Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages 325
14. Contact-induced changes in Amerindian languages of French Guiana 349
15. A case of weak Romancisation: Italian in East Africa 377
16. Loan word gender: A case of romancisation in Standard German and related enclave varieties 399
17. Backmatter 441