Contact and Grammaticalization

Abstract

Language contact may have a wide range of implications for the languages involved, and it may affect virtually any component of language structure. This chapter concerns grammatical replication as an outcome, for which there is some cross-linguistic evidence. It provides some general understanding of the nature of grammatical replication, which has both a sociolinguistic component and a linguistic component. A major type of grammatical replication is contact-induced grammaticalization. The chapter presents an example that illustrates the significance of the distinction between ordinary and replica contact-induced grammaticalization. Polysemy copying is fairly common in lexical replication, but appears to be rare in grammatical replication, where a more complex process tends to be involved, namely contact-induced grammaticalization. In the course of language contact, a process of grammatical replication may affect three or even more languages, thereby giving rise to a grammaticalization area.

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