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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 February 2017
      16 February 2017
      ISBN:
      9781139027694
      9780521514934
      9781108731911
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139027694
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.87kg, 506 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.7kg, 506 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, European Language and Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, European Language and Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
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    This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth, it traces the spread of the periphrastic perfect across Europe over the last 2,500 years, illustrating at each stage the micro-responses of speakers and communities to macro-historical pressures. Among the key forces claimed to be responsible for normative innovations in both eastern and western Europe is 'roofing' - the superstratal influence of Greek and Latin on languages under the influence of Greek Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism respectively. The author provides a new interpretation of the notion of 'sprachbund', presenting the model of a three-dimensional stratified convergence zone, and applies this model to her analysis of the have and be perfects within the Charlemagne sprachbund. The book also tackles broader theoretical issues, for example, demonstrating that the perfect tense should not be viewed as a universal category.

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