Publication: Who changes language? Bilingualism and structural change in Burma and the Reef Islands
Who changes language? Bilingualism and structural change in Burma and the Reef Islands
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Næss, Å., & Jenny, M. (2011). Who changes language? Bilingualism and structural change in Burma and the Reef Islands. Journal of Language Contact, 4(2), 217–249. https://doi.org/10.1163/187740911X589253
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In this paper we discuss two cases of contact-induced language change where lexical and grammatical borrowing appear to have gone in opposite directions: one language has borrowed large amounts of vocabulary from another while at the same time being the source of structural borrowings into the other language. Furthermore, it appears in both cases that the structural borrowing has come about through bilingualism in L1 speakers of the source language, while L1 speakers of the language undergoing the structural change are largely monolin
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- Næss, Åshild
- Jenny, Mathias
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Næss, Å., & Jenny, M. (2011). Who changes language? Bilingualism and structural change in Burma and the Reef Islands. Journal of Language Contact, 4(2), 217–249. https://doi.org/10.1163/187740911X589253
