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Title Transfer of Swahili 'until' in contact with East African languages | ||
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https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3243726 | ||
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Date 2020 | ||
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Author(s) Mous, M.P.G.M. | ||
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Contributor(s) Smith, N.; Veenstra, T.; Aboh, E.O. | ||
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Abstract Swahili has transformed the noun <em>mpaka</em> 'boundary, border' into a function word 'until', which has successfully spread to many other East African languages with locative and temporal readings. The grammaticalisation originated in a N-N construction without an associative 'of' interpreted as limiting the action adverbially. The main function is in the time interpretation of 'until'. I provide an overview of this transfer in East Africa by looking at a large number of languages and argue that parallel independent grammaticalisation is not what is at stake but rather transfer of the function word and the preposition-like function. - Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics | ||
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Subject(s) Grammaticalisation; Borrowing; East Africa; 'Until' | ||
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Language en | ||
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Type of publication Part of book or chapter of book; info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart; Text | ||
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Format application/pdf | ||
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Source Contact Language Library -- Advances in contact linguistics: in honour of Pieter Muysken | ||
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Rights https://hdl.handle.net/1887/license:4 | ||
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Identifier isbn:9789027207562; eisbn:9789027260734; doi:10.1075/coll.57.07mou; lucris-id:339128237 | ||
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Repository Leiden - University of Leiden 
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