TY  - JOUR
A1  - Polinsky, Maria
T1  - Cross-linguistic parallels in language loss
T2  - Southwest journal of linguistics
N2  - What are the similarities and differences in the loss of grammatical systems across individual languages? To answer this question, I examine structural consequences of language attrition and the correspondences between language-particular and cross-linguistic phenomena under circumstances of severe attrition. However, the very formulation of this approach, involving "severe attrition", already warrants some clarification, It leads to the formuIation of two collateral questions. First, how can the level of language attrition be quantified? Second, which structural features are diagnostic of the decline of grammar? I present data on structural change in six attrited languages as compared to non-attrited control languages and demonstrate that there is significant parallelism in structural change across languages. Next, I show a correlation between levels of grammatical and lexical loss and introduce a simple test allowing us to measure the level of attrition.
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/16158
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1095675
SN  - 0737-4143
N1  - Signatur: Zs 17941
VL  - 14
IS  - 1-2
SP  - 87
EP  - 123
ER  -