| Автор | AIKHENVALD, ALEXANDRA Y. |
| Дата выпуска | 2003 |
| dc.description | Borrowing, or diffusion, of grammatical categories in language contact is not a unitary process. In the linguistic area of the Vaupés in northwest Amazonia, several different mechanisms help create new contact-induced morphology. Languages which are in continuous contact belong to the genetically unrelated East-Tucanoan and Arawak families. There is a strong cultural inhibition against borrowing forms of any sort (grammatical or lexical). Language contact in the multilingual Vaupés linguistic area has resulted in the development of similar – though far from identical – grammatical structures. In Tariana, an Arawak language spoken in the area, reanalysis and reinterpretation of existing categories takes place when diffusion involves restructuring a pre-existing category for which there is a slot in the structure, such as case. A new grammatical category with no pre-existing slots may evolve via grammaticalization of a free morpheme – this is how aspect and aktionsart marking was developed. The development of a five-term tense-evidentiality paradigm involves a combination of strategies: reanalysis with reinterpretation accounts for the obligatory tense marking, and the history of visual, inferred and reported evidentials. The nonvisual evidential evolved via grammaticalization of a lexical verb while the most recent, assumed, evidential involves reanalysis and reinterpretation of an aspect marker and grammatical accommodation. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | Mechanisms of change in areal diffusion: new morphology and language contactMy warmest thanks go to the Brito family of Santa Rosa and the Muniz family of Periquitos, Amazonas, Brazil, who taught me Tariana, to the late Marcília Rodrigues and to Afonso and Albino Fontes, for teaching me Baniwa, to Alfredo Fontes, for teaching me some Tucano, and to the late Tiago Cardoso, who instructed me in Desano and Piratapuya. I am extremely grateful to Tim Curnow, R. M. W. Dixon, Brian Joseph, Regina Pustet and Tonya Stebbins, and to the anonymous JL referees for constructive comments and suggestions. |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0022226702001937 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-7742 |
| Print ISSN | 0022-2267 |
| Журнал | Journal of Linguistics |
| Том | 39 |
| Первая страница | 1 |
| Последняя страница | 29 |
| Аффилиация | AIKHENVALD ALEXANDRA Y.; La Trobe University; La Trobe University |
| Выпуск | 1 |
