LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Minimal Pair, Language Change, Animacy
8 Feb 2018
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Preposition stranding: preposition is at the end of the sentence, prescriptivists do not like this structure. In french, this is limited to certain prepositions, rule based, different from. Anglicism grammar: language change does not equal language death. Language minorities: mayan languages, mexico, guatemala. Interesting structures (tell us about linguistics do the structures we create for. European languages hold up?: polynesian languages, niue and new zealand, french polynesia, from a scientific perspective, losing the languages loses possibility for analysis, also do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to lose a la(cid:374)guage f(cid:396)o(cid:373) a (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al perspective. Context: throughout history, languages die and are created (creoles- many are temporary. Reasons for language loss: presence of a larger language used by a more powerful group. It is more advantageous to speak english, french or spanish, more job opportunities: external forces: military, economic, religious, cultural or educational subjugation. Internal forces: communities can have negative attitudes towards their own language.
