Browsing Linguistics by Author "Puthuval, Sarala"
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Language maintenance and shift across generations in Inner Mongolia
Puthuval, SaralaLanguage shift happens when a group of people stops using one language in favor of another, such that subsequent generations no longer acquire the original language. Research on the sociolinguistics of language shift has ... -
Loanwords, prominence and the basis for Mongolian vowel harmony
Puthuval, Sarala (2013-07-25)The standard analysis of Modern Mongolian vowel harmony is as rightward spreading of the features [pharyngeal] and [round] starting from the first syllable of the word. Because Mongolian has exclusively suffixing morphology ...