Variation in the production of Basque ergativity: Change or stable variation?

IF 1.4 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2024-04-19 DOI:10.1017/s0954394524000048

Ager Gondra, Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, Eukene Franco-Landa

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Abstract

This study examines the extent to which the Basque ergative -k marker is undergoing change in the Basque Autonomous Community. The inclusion of Standard Basque in the education system since 1982 has brought a significant generational change in the mode of language acquisition: older speakers had no formal education in Basque, whereas younger speakers were educated in the Basque immersion program. Contrary to popular belief, results provide no evidence of ergative loss in apparent time; rather, they are consistent with linguistic stabilization. We claim that the differences in social constraints of gender and language use among the younger group reflect social changes, in which mode of language acquisition is responsible for the social stabilization and further stratification of ergativity. We conclude by arguing that minoritized contexts undergoing language revitalization provide important implications for sociolinguistic change, whereby social changes are embraced in assessing linguistic change.

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巴斯克语词形变化的产生：变化还是稳定的变异？

本研究探讨了巴斯克语动词-k标记在巴斯克自治区发生变化的程度。自 1982 年将标准巴斯克语纳入教育体系以来，语言习得模式发生了重大的代际变化：年龄较大的语言使用者没有接受过正规的巴斯克语教育，而年龄较小的语言使用者则接受了巴斯克语浸入式教育。与流行的观点相反，研究结果并没有提供明显的时间损失的证据；相反，这些结果与语言的稳定性是一致的。我们认为，年轻群体在性别和语言使用方面的社会限制差异反映了社会变迁，而语言习得模式是造成尔格语社会稳定和进一步分层的原因。最后，我们认为，正在经历语言复兴的少数民族语境为社会语言学变革提供了重要启示，即在评估语言变革时要考虑到社会变化。

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期刊介绍： Language Variation and Change is the only journal dedicated exclusively to the study of linguistic variation and the capacity to deal with systematic and inherent variation in synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Sociolinguistics involves analysing the interaction of language, culture and society; the more specific study of variation is concerned with the impact of this interaction on the structures and processes of traditional linguistics. Language Variation and Change concentrates on the details of linguistic structure in actual speech production and processing (or writing), including contemporary or historical sources.