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Moribund Germanic heritage languages in North America : theoretical perspectives and empirical findings /

The contributions in Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America advance the ever-expanding research program in formal and theoretical treatments of heritage language grammars through in-depth empirical investigations. The core focus on moribund varieties of heritage Germanic languages ext...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Page, B. Richard, Putnam, Michael T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Series:Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; volume 8.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Researching Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges and Rewards; 2 A Syntactic Model for the Analysis of Language Mixing Phenomena: American Norwegian and Beyond; 3 An Early Stage of the Historical Development of Complementizer Agreement: Evidence from Wisconsin Heritage German; 4 Verb Second and Finiteness Morphology in Norwegian Heritage Language of the American Midwest; 5 Where Discourse Structure and a Heritage Language Meet: Oral History Interviews of Swedish Americans; 6 Noun Phrase Case Shift in Volga German Varieties on the Great Plains of Kansas.
  • 7 Incomplete Acquisition and Verb Placement in Heritage Scandinavian8 Language Shift, Religious Identity, and Phonological Traces of Pennsylvania German in Pennsylvania English: The Laxing of Unstressed /i/ among Pennsylvania German Anabaptists; 9 Minimizing (Interface) Domains: The Loss of Long-Distance Binding in North American Icelandic; 10 Sociolinguistic and Syntactic Variation in Wisconsin German Narratives; Index of Authors Cited; _GoBack; _GoBack.