Is There Convergence in Language Death? Evidence from Chipewyan and Stoney

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2476161
AutoresEung‐do Cook
Año1995
Volumen5
Número2
Páginas217-231
Fecha de publicación1995-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/jlin.1995.5.2.217
OpenAlexW1985846291
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas21

There have been explicit claims and implicit assumptions that extensive and drastic structural reductions that occur in dying languages are due to convergence and confluence. This article argues that structural decay and change in language death are not caused by external influence but by an impeded and premature process of acquisition. Critical reviews of some well-known convergence analyses (including Chipewyan) are presented to demonstrate that changes are not due to convergence but internally motivated. The conservative features in dying dialects and innovative changes in a thriving dialect of Stoney further suggest that convergence never or rarely occurs in the final stage of language death

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy