LING 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Explicit Memory, Simultaneous Bilingualism, Code-Mixing
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Language change/evolution: a language slowly changes over time, in a natural way: the original language may die, but it has descendants. E. g. , latin (a so-called dead language) underwent a number of changes into the modern romance languages. Language shift/death: a language is abandoned in favor of another, leaving no descendant languages. At some point, it is not passed on from one generation to the next. This kind of language death is the result of social, political and economic factors, rather than linguistic ones. (bobaljik 1998) Many indigenous languages in various parts of the world: shifts from situations where only an indigenous language is spoken to situations where only the majority language (usually the result of colonization) is spoken. The result is linguistic assimilation and the death of the indigenous language. At a societal level, the following is observed: monolingual minority language bilingual (including diglossia) in minority & majority language dominant in majority language monolingual in majority language.
