1. Chapter 5 Linguistic areas, bottom-up or top-down?
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Muysken, Pieter, Hammarström, Harald, Birchall, Joshua, van Gijn, Rick, Krasnoukhova, Olga, Müller, Neele, Comrie, Bernard, and Golluscio, Lucía
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Language Contact ,Language Change ,Linguistic Areas ,Linguistic Typology ,Language Documentation ,Digital Archives ,Language Maintenance ,Spoken and Written Language ,thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics ,thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics - Abstract
In this paper we will take data from four areas of grammatical structure: argument marking (coded by Birchall), subordination (coded by Van Gijn), the noun phrase (coded by Krasnoukhova), and tame marking (tense/aspect/mood/evidentiality, coded by Müller). These data are compared for 22 lan-guages, thirteen from the Guaporé-Mamoré region in a broad sense, and nine from outside of the region. The key question we were originally asking our-selves is: do the thirteen languages from the region pattern more closely together than the overall set of languages as a whole, including the nine outsiders? It turned out that a somewhat different formulation was better, but we return to this below.
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- 2014
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