The effect of language contact on Romance verbal paradigms : an empirical survey
Rather than conveying morphosyntactic meaning, conjugation classes determine how such properties are expressed. Conjugation classes are therefore ‘ornamental’ properties of language and clearly not essential to communication. Such purely formal distinctions tend to be absent from contact varieties l...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Published: |
Universidade do Porto
2008-01-01
|
| Series: | Linguística : Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/6879.pdf |