• DOI:10.1515/ling.1973.11.113.41
• Corpus ID: 144569294

LANGUAGE INTERFERENCES AND HISTORICAL DIALECTOLOGY

@inproceedings{Desnickaja1973LANGUAGEIA,
  title={LANGUAGE INTERFERENCES AND HISTORICAL DIALECTOLOGY},
  author={A. V. Desnickaja},
  year={1973}
}

• A. V. Desnickaja
• Published 1973
• Linguistics

For a historical approach to the problem of linguistic interference the dialectological data can be considered a more appropriate field of investigation than any reconstructions of hypothetical substrata. The historical dialectology operates with chronological differences, distributed on a geographical area. Such material can be of special relevance for the inquiry of some specific deviation phenomena, originating from the process of evolution considered as normal for the language we investigate. In our study of language interferences we may start from some peculiar dialectal differences and interdialectal affinities, considering them as resulting from another language influence. It does not need to be emphasized, that by such a proceeding one must take into consideration the amount of ethnolinguistic, sociohistorical and geographical conditions. From this point of view certain facts of Albanian dialectology may be explained as resulting from language contacts.