Brazilis the largest country in both South America and Latin America. While the actual capital city is Brasilia, Sao Paulo is the most populous one. The World Bank characterizes Brazil as an upper-middle-income country, making it an attractive outsourcing destination for many US-based and other...
Threatened languages of Sierra Leone This section characterizes the vitality of several threatened languages of Sierra Leone, Mani and Bom-Kim, two languages on which I have conducted research. An additional threatened language, Sherbro, forms the target of upcoming research. 2 One reviewer pointed ...
Whereas the dyadic data structure of our sample enabled us to study our theoretical assumptions from two perspectives, some methodological aspects could be improved in future studies. First, we had an unbalanced sample: We asked leaders to invite up to three of their followers. We did so to in...
212); convergence characterizes the emergence of new grammatical forms different from L1 and L2 in contact situations (Sánchez 2003); and the Quechua languages are undergoing typological shift toward more isolating morphology (Hintz 2011, 2016). The hypothesis that late-acquired elements are more ...