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The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death : Evidence from Minor Finnic / Petar Kehayov.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 307Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (XIX, 385 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110521856
  • 9783110521993
  • 9783110524086
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 23/eng/20230216
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Transliteration and transcription conventions -- Abbreviations of languages, dialects and names of settlements (in Russian and in the respective Finnic variety) -- Abbreviations of linguistic notions -- List of figures. List of maps. List of tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2 Language death: current state of the research -- 3. Mood and modality: definitions, semantic values and their organization -- 4. Mood and modality meets language death -- 5. The languages studied -- 6. Methods of inquiry -- 7. Intensity of the language contact and the degree of contraction outside MM-domain -- 8. MM in the receding varieties -- 9. Toward a uniform account of the phenomena observed in the domain of MM -- 10. Conclusions -- Appendices: examples of elicited linguistic data -- Appendix I. Q5: materials from Eastern Seto -- Appendix II. Non-controlled elicitation: materials from Central Lude -- References -- Language index: Finnic varieties -- Subject index
Summary: Research into the “grammar of language death” is often biased toward formal processes (e.g. paradigmatic levelling). In this study the author changes the perspective and shows that the relative susceptibility of linguistic elements to loss, change and innovation in language death circumstances can be dependent on meaning and thus organized along semantic notions rather than along structure.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Transliteration and transcription conventions -- Abbreviations of languages, dialects and names of settlements (in Russian and in the respective Finnic variety) -- Abbreviations of linguistic notions -- List of figures. List of maps. List of tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2 Language death: current state of the research -- 3. Mood and modality: definitions, semantic values and their organization -- 4. Mood and modality meets language death -- 5. The languages studied -- 6. Methods of inquiry -- 7. Intensity of the language contact and the degree of contraction outside MM-domain -- 8. MM in the receding varieties -- 9. Toward a uniform account of the phenomena observed in the domain of MM -- 10. Conclusions -- Appendices: examples of elicited linguistic data -- Appendix I. Q5: materials from Eastern Seto -- Appendix II. Non-controlled elicitation: materials from Central Lude -- References -- Language index: Finnic varieties -- Subject index

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Research into the “grammar of language death” is often biased toward formal processes (e.g. paradigmatic levelling). In this study the author changes the perspective and shows that the relative susceptibility of linguistic elements to loss, change and innovation in language death circumstances can be dependent on meaning and thus organized along semantic notions rather than along structure.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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