Differential Interference in American Finnish Cases
Donald Wilford Larmouth · Language · 1974
The Finnish language in Minnesota has undergone considerable interference through four generations of contact with English, largely because of syntagmatic congruence with English sentences. The noun cases have responded in a variety of ways to this interference, demonstrating that both the degree of boundness and syntactic congruence are critical to the explanation of interference, as case-endings in highly bound environments are much more resistant to interference than those in moderately or loosely bound environments.