Plateau linguistic area

E583553

Sprachbund linguistic area

The Plateau linguistic area is a region of the North American Plateau where diverse Indigenous languages, often from different families, share common structural features due to long-term contact and interaction.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Plateau linguistic area canonical	2
North American linguistic areas	1
Pueblo linguistic area	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sprachbund ⓘ linguistic area ⓘ
characterizedBy	areal typological patterns ⓘ contact-induced language change ⓘ languages from multiple families sharing similar structures ⓘ
hasCause	intermarriage among communities ⓘ long-term contact among Indigenous groups ⓘ multilingualism ⓘ trade networks ⓘ
hasFeature	areal diffusion of grammatical patterns ⓘ lexical borrowing among unrelated languages ⓘ morphosyntactic convergence ⓘ phonological convergence ⓘ shared structural features due to language contact ⓘ
hasLanguage	Chinookan languages ⓘ Coeur d’Alene language NERFINISHED ⓘ Colville-Okanagan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kalispel-Pend d’Oreille language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kutenai language NERFINISHED ⓘ Nez Perce language NERFINISHED ⓘ Shuswap language NERFINISHED ⓘ Spokane language NERFINISHED ⓘ Thompson River Salish language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguageFamily	Athabaskan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Chinookan languages ⓘ Interior Salish languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Kutenai language NERFINISHED ⓘ Sahaptian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Salishan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart	Columbia Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ Interior Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ Plateau cultural area ⓘ
hasPopulationType	Indigenous peoples of the Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasResearchTopic	distinguishing inherited vs. borrowed features ⓘ historical contact relations among Plateau groups ⓘ identification of shared grammatical features ⓘ
locatedIn	North America ⓘ North American Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo	Great Basin linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Coast linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ Plateau cultural area ⓘ
studiedInField	North American Indigenous linguistics ⓘ areal linguistics ⓘ
timeDepth	pre-contact period and continuing into the present ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Klamath–Modoc language → linguisticArea → Plateau linguistic area ⓘ

Keresan languages → arealAssociation → Plateau linguistic area ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pueblo linguistic area

Great Basin linguistic area → relatedTo → Plateau linguistic area ⓘ

Great Basin linguistic area → partOf → Plateau linguistic area ⓘ

this entity surface form: North American linguistic areas