The changing languages of Europe /
Heine, Bernd, 1939-
The changing languages of Europe / Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva. - xvii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Oxford linguistics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Professor Heine and Professor Kuteva look for the causes of linguistic change in cultural and economic exchanges across national and regional boundaries and in the processes that occur when speakers learn or are in close contact with another language. Testing their data and conclusions against findings from elsewhere in the world, the authors reconstruct and reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures"
0199297347 9780199297344
Areal linguistics.
Linguistic change.
Typology (Linguistics)
Europe--Languages.
--Reading book
409.4 / HEI
The changing languages of Europe / Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva. - xvii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Oxford linguistics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Professor Heine and Professor Kuteva look for the causes of linguistic change in cultural and economic exchanges across national and regional boundaries and in the processes that occur when speakers learn or are in close contact with another language. Testing their data and conclusions against findings from elsewhere in the world, the authors reconstruct and reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures"
0199297347 9780199297344
Areal linguistics.
Linguistic change.
Typology (Linguistics)
Europe--Languages.
--Reading book
409.4 / HEI