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Sociolinguistic Factors in the Direction of Language Change.
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Maher, Julianne – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1984
Presents evidence for a causal relationship between particular sociolinguistic contexts and a direction of language change in morphosyntax by identifying a class of contact languages that are similar. They are similar in that they are 'lower' languages used in multilingual diglossic speech communities that are isolated from the standard and…
Descriptors: Diglossia, Language Role, Language Variation, Morphology (Languages)