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Expansion by migrat...
Expansion by migration and diffusion by contact is a source to the global diversity of linguistic nominal categorization systems
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- Allassonnière-Tang, Marc (author)
- Éco-anthropologie (EA) UMR 7206,Univ Paris, CNRS, MNHN, EA UMR 7206, Paris, France.
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- Lundgren, Olof (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Allmän språkvetenskap,Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik,Sektion 6,Språk- och litteraturcentrum,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,General Linguistics,Division of Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics,Section 6,Centre for Languages and Literature,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology,Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden.
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- Robbers, Maja (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Uppsala University,Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi
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- Cronhamn, Sandra (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Allmän språkvetenskap,Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik,Sektion 6,Språk- och litteraturcentrum,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,Svenska som främmande språk,Avdelningen för svenska som andraspråk och svenska som främmande språk,Sektion 1,General Linguistics,Division of Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics,Section 6,Centre for Languages and Literature,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology,Swedish as a Foreign Language,Division of Swedish as a Second Language and Swedish as a Foreign Language,Section 1,Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden.
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- Larsson, Filip (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Allmän språkvetenskap,Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik,Sektion 6,Språk- och litteraturcentrum,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,General Linguistics,Division of Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics,Section 6,Centre for Languages and Literature,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology,Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden.
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- Her, One-Soon (author)
- Tunghai University,Tunghai Univ, Taichung, Taiwan.
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- Hammarström, Harald (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Uppsala University,Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi
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- Carling, Gerd (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Sektion 1,Språk- och litteraturcentrum,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,Allmän språkvetenskap,Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik,Sektion 6,Fonetik,Kognitiv semiotik,Section 1,Centre for Languages and Literature,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology,General Linguistics,Division of Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics,Section 6,Phonetics,Cognitive Semiotics,Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden.
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Éco-anthropologie (EA) UMR 7206 Univ Paris, CNRS, MNHN, EA UMR 7206, Paris, France (creator_code:org_t)
- 2021-12-21
- 2021
- English 6 s.
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In: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2662-9992. ; 8, s. 1-6
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- Languages of diverse structures and different families tend to share common patterns if they are spoken in geographic proximity. This convergence is often explained by horizontal diffusibility, which is typically ascribed to language contact. In such a scenario, speakers of two or more languages interact and influence each other’s languages, and in this interaction, more grammaticalized features tend to be more resistant to diffusion compared to features of more lexical content. An alternative explanation is vertical heritability: languages in proximity often share genealogical descent. Here, we suggest that the geographic distribution of features globally can be explained by two major pathways, which are generally not distinguished within quantitative typological models: feature diffusion and language expansion. The first pathway corresponds to the contact scenario described above, while the second occurs when speakers of genetically related languages migrate. We take the worldwide distribution of nominal classification systems (grammatical gender, noun class, and classifier) as a case study to show that more grammaticalized systems, such as gender, and less grammaticalized systems, such as classifiers, are almost equally widespread, but the former spread more by language expansion historically, whereas the latter spread more by feature diffusion. Our results indicate that quantitative models measuring the areal diffusibility and stability of linguistic features are likely to be affected by language expansion that occurs by historical coincidence. We anticipate that our findings will support studies of language diversity in a more sophisticated way, with relevance to other parts of language, such as phonology.
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- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)
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