The quotation about Votic becoming Izora is from Paul 1970 Ariste’s article des Aussterbens zweier finnisch-ugrischer ‘Die Wege Sprachen’ [‘The routes to death of two Finno-Ugric the quoted sentences are my languages’]; translation of his German sentences und grammatische (‘Ishorische Worter Ztige sind ins Wotische fast unmerklich eingedrungen, bis sie das Uberge- wicht bekamen. Dann war die Sprache dieser Woten nicht mehr Wotisch, sondem schon ishorisch’). The quotation about Lenca (and two other languages of El Salvador) is from p. 1960 of Lyle 1994 article On the same Campbell’s ‘Language death’. page Campbell cites two other articles, Wolfgang U. Dressler’s ‘Language shift and language death - a protean challenge for the and linguist’ (1981) death in Uto-Aztecan’ as sources for Jane Hill’s ‘Language (1983), discussion of what he calls language and language ‘sudden death’ ‘radical death’. The quotation about the inevitability of structural change in a (gradually) dying language is from p. 12 of 1992 article of language Sasse’s ‘Theory (cited above). Nancy C. comment about East Sutherland death’ Dorian’s morphological boots is from her 1978 article fate of Gaelic’s ‘The morphological complexity in language death: evidence from East Sutherland one of the many authors who cite this comment is Lyle Campbell, on Gaelic’; p. 1963 of his article, where he also cites several other ‘Language death’ sources that report lack of morphological reduction in language death. On the same page, Campbell mentions that shortening long words has been reported as a feature of language death.
The quotation about Votic becoming Izora is from Paul Ariste’s 1970 article ‘Die Wege des Aussterbens zweier finnisch-ugrischer Sprachen’ [‘The routes to death of two Finno-Ugric languages’]; the quoted sentences are my translation of his German sentences (‘Ishorische Worter und grammatische Ztige sind ins Wotische fast unmerklich eingedrungen, bis sie das Uberge- wicht bekamen. Dann war die Sprache dieser Woten nicht mehr Wotisch, sondem schon ishorisch’). The quotation about Lenca (and two other languages of El Salvador) is from p. 1960 of Lyle Campbell’s 1994 article ‘Language death’. On the same page Campbell cites two other articles, Wolfgang U. Dressler’s ‘Language shift and language death - a protean challenge for the linguist’ (1981) and Jane Hill’s ‘Language death in Uto-Aztecan’ (1983), as sources for discussion of what he calls ‘sudden language death’ and ‘radical language death’. The quotation about the inevitability of structural change in a (gradually) dying language is from p. 12 of Sasse’s 1992 article ‘Theory of language death’ (cited above). Nancy C. Dorian’s comment about East Sutherland Gaelic’s morphological boots is from her 1978 article ‘The fate of morphological complexity in language death: evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic’; one of the many authors who cite this comment is Lyle Campbell, on p. 1963 of his ‘Language death’ article, where he also cites several other sources that report lack of morphological reduction in language death. On the same page, Campbell mentions that shortening long words has been reported as a feature of language death.