@phdthesis{72122,
  author          = {Gilmer, Paul Gregory},
  pages           = {121},
  school          = {Austin: University of Texas at Austin},
  title           = {Judeo-Spanish To Turkish: Linguistic Correlates of Language Death (Ladino, Attrition, Izmir, Lexical Reduction, Morphological Simplification)},
  year            = {1986},
  abstract        = {This dissertation examines two types of linguistic change in Judeo-Spanish spoken in Turkey and attempts to see if they support the hypothesis that there are linguistic correlates of language death. Judeo-Spanish, a dialect of Spanish, has been spoken in Turkey for almost five hundred years, yet today it is being used by fewer individuals in fewer situations. Also, in that same time period, the language has seen lexical reduction and morphological simplification. Oral data collected in Izmir, Turkey by the researcher serve, along with written materials, as a basis to chart the progress of these changes during the present century. Two areas of linguistic change are reduction in the lexicon and simplification in the morphology. Reduction is evident primarily in Judeo-Spanish borrowing from Turkish. Turkish verbs, in particular, are the main object of focus. Loanword phonology and lexical instability are secondary aspects related to reduction. Simplification is most obvious in the spread of pluralization in third person possessive pronouns and third person postverbal reflexive clitics. This morphological simplification, though resulting in greater redundancy, is achieved through greater transparency between form and meaning. The results indicate that Judeo-Spanish, like many other dying languages, has undergone reduction and simplification. However, these changes do not appear to be unique to dying languages. For example, pidgins, interlanguages, and other types of language exhibit similar changes. In fact, in Judeo-Spanish the rate of change has showed down in the period under study when compared with that of the previous four centuries when the language was not dying. These results lead to the conclusion that there are no uniquely attributable linguistic correlates to language death. However, a weaker form of the hypothesis is tenable; there are linguistic correlates of language death. Another important implication of this study is that there are varying levels of language death. Judeo-Spanish is a dying language but it is not as advanced in the process of language death as most of the other previously studied dying languages.},
  bestfn          = {eurasia\gilmer_judeo1986_o.pdf},
  besttxt         = {ptxt\eurasia\gilmer_simplification1986.txt},
  cfn             = {eurasia\gilmer_judeo1986_o.pdf},
  degree          = {PhD},
  delivered       = {eurasia\gilmer_judeo1986_o.pdf},
  digital_formats = {PDF 3.18Mb image-only PDF},
  fn              = {eurasia\gilmer_judeo1986_o.pdf, eurasia\gilmer_simplification1986.pdf, eurasia\gilmer_simplification1986_o.pdf},
  hhtype          = {overview;minimal},
  inlg            = {English [eng]},
  lgcode          = {Ladino [lad]},
  macro_area      = {Eurasia},
  source          = {DAI-A 47/05, p. 1714, Nov 1986},
  src             = {hh},
  subject         = {LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS (0290)},
  umi_id          = {8618477}
}