Languages with More Second Language Learners Tend to Lose Nominal Case

Language Dynamics and Change

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-27

  Bentz, Christian ^a   Winter, Bodo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

case; language evolution; second language acquisition; sociolinguistic typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903192759     PISSN: 22105824     EISSN: 22105832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22105832-13030105     Document Type: Article

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