What happens in language loss?
Abstrak
FUF 65: 153–154 (2020) method for more specific purposes, namely the analysis of changes in mood and modality. Compared to primary data drawn from colloquial speech, elicitation and translated clauses run certain risks, most notably the unexpected influence of the source language on the recipient language. However, this is exactly what the author is looking for. More importantly, his previous knowledge of the Finnic languages, and the various types of contacts they have had with other languages, is so comprehensive that the result is impressive. The treatment of individual aspects is careful and precise, and these aspects actually amount to much more than the title alone suggests. The book is concise, with no superfluous elements included, and it consists of ten chapters. The theoretical foundations of the study are carefully introduced as both language death and mood and modality are conceptually clarified, separately in Chapters 2–3, and together in Chapter 4. Here, probabilistic hierarchies between categories are introduced; for instance, standard questions about What happens in language loss?
Penulis (1)
R. Grünthal
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2020
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.33339/fuf.99925
- Akses
- Open Access ✓