This contribution aims at analyzing one case of resistance to interference, with the ultimate goal of contributing to a predictive theory of the conditions on contact-induced language change. This paper explores the possibility that interference is necessarily the result of structural reanalysis of strings of E-language already weakly generated in the targeted grammar. We construe the Resistance Principle as a formalization of Weinreich’s (1953) observation that interference can be blocked by structural incompatibility between the Source and Target language; this is done by formulating it in terms of set-theoretic relations among the strings generated and used to trigger parameter values.

Contact and resistance

Paola Crisma
2020-01-01

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This contribution aims at analyzing one case of resistance to interference, with the ultimate goal of contributing to a predictive theory of the conditions on contact-induced language change. This paper explores the possibility that interference is necessarily the result of structural reanalysis of strings of E-language already weakly generated in the targeted grammar. We construe the Resistance Principle as a formalization of Weinreich’s (1953) observation that interference can be blocked by structural incompatibility between the Source and Target language; this is done by formulating it in terms of set-theoretic relations among the strings generated and used to trigger parameter values.
2020
978-88-3613-088-7
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