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Language death, modality, and functional explanations

S. Gregersen

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ABSTRACT The article is an in-depth review of Petar Kehayov’s monograph The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death: Evidence from Minor Finnic (De Gruyter Mouton, 2017). The book investigates the development of mood and modality in four moribund Finnic languages spoken in the Russian Federation: Votic, Ingrian, Central Lude, and Eastern Seto. After a detailed summary of the book, I discuss a number of issues relating to (a) the semantic map used to analyze the modal meanings; (b) the difference between language death-related changes and “regular” language change; and (c) the explanation of the observed patterns in terms of conceptual complexity. On the last point, I suggest that usage frequency may provide a better explanation for some of the observed changes.

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Psychology

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S. Gregersen

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Gregersen, S. (2020). Language death, modality, and functional explanations. https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2020.1743582

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Tahun Terbit: 2020
Bahasa: en
Total Sitasi: 1×
Sumber Database: Semantic Scholar
DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2020.1743582
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