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Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects of pre–existing structural congruency between the affected languages at the time of their initial contact, using the Romance and Slavic languages as examples. In contact of this kind, both genetic and typological similarities play a part.

Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change: Language Families, Typological Resemblance, and Perceived Similarity

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      Publisher: De Gruyter
      Publication Date: 20/01/2014
      ISBN13: 9783110338348, 978-3110338348
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      Book Synopsis

      Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects of pre–existing structural congruency between the affected languages at the time of their initial contact, using the Romance and Slavic languages as examples. In contact of this kind, both genetic and typological similarities play a part.

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