{"product_id":"9783110196283","title":"Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective","description":"The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence \/ grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication).","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057860231408,"sku":"9783110196283","price":252.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783110196283_p0.jpg?v=1763714969","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783110196283","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}