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  • Sociolinguistic Discontinuity in Minority Language Communities

  • Raymond Mougeon, Terry Nadasdi
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 74 / Issue 1 / March 1998
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 40-55

  • We discuss the Labovian view of the speech community against the backdrop of data from research on variation in minority languages. While members of the same speech community normally share a set of norms for social and stylistic constraints on variation and normally share a common grammar, a number of researchers have noted that some speech communities include subgroups of speakers that are unlike the rest of the community in that they observe different rules or constraints on variable usage. We provide an overview of the main types of discontinuities in variable usage which have been attested both in majority and minority languages and discuss twelve cases of discontinuity which have been documented in the speech of Franco-Ontarian adolescents residing in minority Francophone communities. We also attempt to account for the existence of these discontinuities and consider their implications for the concept of the speech community.

  • ‘Natural concepts’ in the spatial topological domain—Adpositional meanings in crosslinguistic perspective: an exercise in semantic typology

  • Stephen Levinson, Sérgio Meira, The Language and Cognition Group
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 79 / Issue 3 / September 2003
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 485-516

  • Most approaches to spatial language have assumed that the simplest spatial notions are (after Piaget) topological and universal (containment, contiguity, proximity, support, represented as semantic primitives such as in, on, under, etc.). These concepts would be coded directly in language, above all in small closed classes such as adpositions—thus providing a striking example of semantic categories as language-specific projections of universal conceptual notions. This idea, if correct, should have as a consequence that the semantic categories instantiated in spatial adpositions should be essentially uniform crosslinguistically. This article attempts to verify this possibility by comparing the semantics of spatial adpositions in nine unrelated languages, with the help of a standard elicitation procedure, thus producing a preliminary semantic typology of spatial adpositional systems. The differences between the languages turn out to be so significant as to be incompatible with stronger versions of the universal conceptual categories hypothesis. Rather, the language-specific spatial adposition meanings seem to emerge as compact subsets of an underlying semantic space, with certain areas being statistical attractors or foci. Moreover, a comparison of systems with different degrees of complexity suggests the possibility of positing implicational hierarchies for spatial adpositions. But such hierarchies need to be treated as successive divisions of semantic space, as in recent treatments of basic color terms. This type of analysis appears to be a promising approach for future work in semantic typology.

  • Fred Walter Householder

  • Byron W. Bender
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 73 / Issue 3 / September 1997
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    19 February 2026, pp. 560-570
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  • Charles F. Hockett

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 79 / Issue 3 / September 2003
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    19 February 2026, pp. 600-613
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