Grammatical Convergence and the Genesis of Diversity in the Northwest Coast Sprachbund  

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Beck, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 42 no. 2 (Mar. 2000), page 147-213.
Fulltext: Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 147-213.pdf (7.7MB)

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The Pacific Northwest boasts one of the world's most extensive Sprachbiinde, which encompasses several controversial genetic phyla, including "Mosan," uniting Salishan, Wakashan, and Chimakuan. This article argues that "Mosan" is not a genetic, but an areal grouping of Central Northwest languages that have come, through millennia of contact, to resemble each other to a remarkable degree. Within this language complex, the Salishan outlier Bella Coola has gone even further than other Salishan languages in approxi- mation to its Wakashan neighbors, and the novel features of this language illustrate both grammatical convergence and diversification, the latter being frequently overlooked in models of language interaction.

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