Grammaticalization processes in the languages of South Asia

This chapter describes grammaticalization patterns in a broad selection of languages of South Asia, a multilingual region of the world known to constitute a linguistic area in which unrelated languages demonstrate evidence of linguistic convergence. In addition to presenting representative examples...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coupe, Alexander R.
Other Authors: Narrog, Heiko
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146316