The topic of the volume is the contrast between borrowable
categories and those which resist transfer. Resistance is
illustrated for the unattested emergence of grammatical gender, the
negligible impact of English and Spanish on the number category in
Patagonian Welsh, the reluctance of replicas to borrow English but.
MAT-borrowing does not imply the copying of rules as the Spanish
function-words in the Chamorro irrealis show. Chamorro and Tetun
Dili look similar on account of their contact-induced parallels.
The languages of the former USSR have borrowed largely identical
sets of conjunctions from Russian, Arabic, and Persian to converge
in the domain of clause linkage. Resistance against and
susceptibility to transfer call for further investigations to the
benefit of language-contact theory.
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