1189: Inter-Linguistic Influences Mar 12, 2018

Following a post the other day about a change in morphology in certain languages, it should be noted that much of the cause of that change is due to interlinguistic influence. For instance, it was said here that people sometimes use pronouns in Modern Spanish rather than whatever verb-ending would carry that same information as happens in English where conjugation is minimal, but in the examples of Spanish, this occurs more often in U.S. Spanish, especially in the Spanish of immigrants to the U.S.. On the other hand, Tocharian—a now-extinct Indo-European language from
 modern northwest China—has eleven cases, but some have suggested that as many as half of these derived from or were influenced by neighboring Uralic cases. Considering that modern Finnish—a Uralic language—has fifteen cases, it is not hard to imagine a language of that family leading to increased declensional endings in another language.
Check out the video that came out today at that link.