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Quechua's loss, Spanish's gain1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Claire Lefebvre
Claire Lefebvre
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Université du Québec à Montréal
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate an aspect of the adaptive property of languages. While scholars have shown that expansion in function is correlated with expansion of the linguistic structure, I show that a loss of function by a language may entail a loss of a particular linguistic distinction. The data used to illustrate this point are drawn from the bilingual community of Cuzco, Peru. (Language contact, the adaptive property of languages, linguistic variation, linguistic change.)

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Language in Society , Volume 8 , Issue 2-3 , August 1979, pp. 395 - 407
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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