Add to ORKGShare features, and especially shared grammaticalization patterns, may result from geographic proximity, contact, and borrowing ("copying"). Related languages "will pass through the same or strikingly similar phases": this "parallelism in drift" (Sapir 1921: 171-172) accounts for additional similarities between related languages, even for those "long disconnected". Parallelism in drift may also account for shared patterns of grammaticalization. The paper explores the ways in which patterns of shared grammaticalization which are demonstrably due to areal diffusion may differ from patterns which can be shown to result from parallelism in drift. To work towards an answer, we focus on the data from two different areas of substantial linguistic ...
In chapters seven and eight of his book Language, Sapir talked about what he called ‘drift’, the cha...
[Extract] What are the reasons for similarities between languages? Linguistic categories can be simi...
Lowland Amazonia is the locus of substantial linguistic diversity in terms of genetic affiliation, l...
Borrowing, or diffusion, of grammatical categories in language contact is not a unitary process. In ...
Borrowing, or diffusion, of grammatical categories in language contact is not a unitary process. In ...
Languages of diverse structures and different families tend to share common patterns if they are spo...
Languages of diverse structures and different families tend to share common patterns if they are spo...
Languages of diverse structures and different families tend to share common patterns if they are spo...
Intensive contact brings about diffusion of grammatical categories. Grammaticalization of lexical it...
Intensive contact brings about diffusion of grammatical categories. Grammaticalization of lexical it...
This chapter describes grammaticalization patterns in a broad selection of languages of South Asia, ...
Despite ample attention in the literature for alignment patterns and case frames more generally, we ...
Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions an...
This article investigates the evolutionary and spatial dynamics of typological characters in 117 Ind...
In chapters seven and eight of his book Language, Sapir talked about what he called ‘drift’, the cha...
In chapters seven and eight of his book Language, Sapir talked about what he called ‘drift’, the cha...
[Extract] What are the reasons for similarities between languages? Linguistic categories can be simi...
Lowland Amazonia is the locus of substantial linguistic diversity in terms of genetic affiliation, l...
Borrowing, or diffusion, of grammatical categories in language contact is not a unitary process. In ...
Borrowing, or diffusion, of grammatical categories in language contact is not a unitary process. In ...
Languages of diverse structures and different families tend to share common patterns if they are spo...
Languages of diverse structures and different families tend to share common patterns if they are spo...
Languages of diverse structures and different families tend to share common patterns if they are spo...
Intensive contact brings about diffusion of grammatical categories. Grammaticalization of lexical it...
Intensive contact brings about diffusion of grammatical categories. Grammaticalization of lexical it...
This chapter describes grammaticalization patterns in a broad selection of languages of South Asia, ...
Despite ample attention in the literature for alignment patterns and case frames more generally, we ...
Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions an...
This article investigates the evolutionary and spatial dynamics of typological characters in 117 Ind...
In chapters seven and eight of his book Language, Sapir talked about what he called ‘drift’, the cha...
In chapters seven and eight of his book Language, Sapir talked about what he called ‘drift’, the cha...
[Extract] What are the reasons for similarities between languages? Linguistic categories can be simi...
Lowland Amazonia is the locus of substantial linguistic diversity in terms of genetic affiliation, l...