Europe and the Mediterranean as linguistic areas convergencies from a historical and typological perspective

This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on 'Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects'. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective...

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Otros Autores: Ramat, Paolo (-), Roma, Elisa
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co 2007.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in language companion series ; v. 88.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31606465*spi
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  • Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of the contributors; Foreword; Trends in the diachronic development of Semitic verbal morphology; Demonstratives in the languages of Europe; Internal structure of verbal stems in the Germanic languages; Relativization strategies in the languages of Europe; The spread and decline of indefinite man -constructions in European languages: An areal perspective; Mediating culture through language: Contact-induced phenomena in the early translations of the Gospels.