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Chapter 5 Linguistic areas, bottom-up or top-down? The case of the Guaporé-Mamoré

In this paper we will take data from four areas of grammatical structure: argument marking (coded by Birchall), subordination (coded by Van Gijn), the noun phrase (coded by Krasnoukhova), and tame marking (tense/aspect/mood/evidentiality, coded by Müller). These data are compared for 22 lan-guages,...

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Main Author: Muysken, Pieter (auth)
Other Authors: Hammarström, Harald (auth), Birchall, Joshua (auth), van Gijn, Rick (auth), Krasnoukhova, Olga (auth), Müller, Neele (auth), Comrie, Bernard (Editor), Golluscio, Lucía (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Spanish
Portuguese
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2014
Subjects:
Language
linguistics
Language Contact
Language Change
Linguistic Areas
Linguistic Typology
Language Documentation
Digital Archives
Language Maintenance
Spoken and Written Language
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Summary:In this paper we will take data from four areas of grammatical structure: argument marking (coded by Birchall), subordination (coded by Van Gijn), the noun phrase (coded by Krasnoukhova), and tame marking (tense/aspect/mood/evidentiality, coded by Müller). These data are compared for 22 lan-guages, thirteen from the Guaporé-Mamoré region in a broad sense, and nine from outside of the region. The key question we were originally asking our-selves is: do the thirteen languages from the region pattern more closely together than the overall set of languages as a whole, including the nine outsiders? It turned out that a somewhat different formulation was better, but we return to this below.
ISBN:9783110317473.205
9783110555370; 9783110393552
Access:Open Access

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