Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter 1
2. Preface 9
3. Part I: Amerindia
4. Part I: Amerindia
5. Morphologies in contact: form, meaning, and use in the grammar of reference 13
6. Part I: Amerindia
7. Borrowing of a Cariban number marker into three Tupi-Guarani languages 37
8. Part I: Amerindia
9. Spanish diminutive markers -ito/-ita in Mesoamerican languages: a challenge for acceptance of gender distinction 71
10. Part II: Austronesia
11. Part II: Austronesia
12. Survival in a niche. On gender-copy in Chamorro (and sundry languages) 91
13. Part III: Balkan (and beyond)
14. Part III: Balkan (and beyond)
15. Verb morphologies in contact: evidence from the Balkan area^* 141
16. Part III: Balkan (and beyond)
17. Romani in contact with Bulgarian and Greek: replication in verbal morphology 163
18. Part III: Balkan (and beyond)
19. Morphology in language contact: verbal loanblend formation in Asia Minor Greek (Aivaliot)^* 177
20. Part III: Balkan (and beyond)
21. Mood meets mood: Turkic versus Indo-European 195
22. Part IV: Romance
23. Part IV: Romance
24. Contact-induced change in personal pronouns: some Romance examples^* 205
25. Part IV: Romance
26. The influence of loanwords on Sardinian word formation 227
27. Part IV: Romance
28. Swinging back the pendulum: French morphology and de-Italianization in Piedmontese 247
29. Part V: Slavic (outside the Slavic core area)
30. Part V: Slavic (outside the Slavic core area)
31. Contact phenomena in the Slavic of Molise: some remarks about nouns and prepositional phrases^* 263
32. Part V: Slavic (outside the Slavic core area)
33. Language contact, language decay and morphological change: evidence from the speech of Czech immigrants in Paraguay^* 283
34. Part VI: Africa
35. Part VI: Africa
36. Roots and patterns in Beja (Cushitic): the issue of language contact with Arabic 309
37. Part VI: Africa
38. Back Matter 327