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- Title
Contact, attrition, and structural shift: evidence from Oroqen.
- Authors
Li Fengxiang
- Abstract
Oroqen is a Tungusic language spoken in Northeast of China and Inner Mongolia. A considerable amount of data from Oroqen reveal patterns that shed light on our understanding of the complex interplay between language contact and language attrition induced changes. Oroqen has undergone drastic restructuring over a relatively short time span of a few decades. I demonstrate that time depth and intensity of contact correlate very closely with the rate and extent of structural borrowing and structural shift that occurred in Oroqen. I argue that the determining factors are sociolinguistic in nature though some of the changes were initially internally motivated.
- Subjects
TUNGUS-Manchu languages; LANGUAGE attrition; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE maintenance; LANGUAGES in China
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2005, Vol 2005, Issue 173, p55
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ijsl.2005.2005.173.55