The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death - Evidence from Minor Finnic

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.

About the author

Petar Kehayov, University of Regensburg, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Petar Kehayov
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783110521856
• ISBN: 978-3-11-052185-6
• No. of pages: 385
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 25 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 711 g
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs (TiLSM); Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics