Linguistic Hybridity: Contact-induced and Cognitively Motivated Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes in Romance Languages (Studia Romanica)

This volume deals with different linguistic phenomena representing grammaticalization and lexicalization processes and combines different approaches of contact linguistics as well as variational linguistics. It contains papers on clitic placement in Angolan Portuguese on the use of subject pronouns in French Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish on evidential marking in Paraguayan Spanish on Paraguayan Guaraní on evidentiality in different varieties of Spanish on discourse markers in Latin America on modal particles in Italian and their translation into German on bilingual communi ties in Southern Brazil on Spanish-German-Russian language contact and on Romance aspectual periphrases in contact with English progressives.