The loss of inflection as grammar complication: Evidence from Mainland Scandinavian

H Sims-Williams, HO Enger - Diachronica, 2021 - jbe-platform.com
The loss of inflectional categories is often thought of as a type of simplification. In this paper
we present a survey of phenomena involving the reduction of adjective agreement in …

A Micro-Typology of Contact Effects in Four Tibeto-Burman Languages

KA Hildebrandt, O Bond, DN Dhakal - Journal of Language Contact, 2023 - brill.com
When minority languages with similar typological profiles are in long-term contact with a
genealogically unrelated socioeconomically dominant language, the perfect context is …