Technical Terms Usage-based approach: A framework positing that linguistic structures emerge from real-world language use and social interaction rather than solely from innate grammatical rules.

Both languages employ effective and appropriate means given their environments. The relationship between language usage and structure is explored. Language in Society is an international journal of ...

Literature on language death offers abundant information on the grammatical, phonological, lexical, and sociolinguistic processes that a dying speech form can undergo. However, work remains to be done ...