Code copying and the strength of languages

• This chapter deals with the stability – in terms of strength and weakness – of indigenous languages. It focuses on Turkic, with its incredibly manifold language contacts. Moving beyond ahistorical universalism, the linguistic study of contact languages should now direct its attention to the specific historical circumstances under which codes have arisen, changed, and vanished. Key determinative factors are whether copied items are ‘taken over’ or ‘carried over’, if their codes are superstrata, substrata, or adstrata, and whether they appear as primary codes or secondary codes.

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Turkic languages

Turkiska språk

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