Moribund Germanic heritage languages in North America : : theoretical perspectives and empirical findings / / Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam.

• Superior document: Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; v. 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Page, B. Richard.; Putnam, Michael T.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2015]
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 extends beyond the exploration of the individual heritage language grammars and contributes to larger discussions in the field of Germanic linguistics.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Researching Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges and Rewards / B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam -- 2 A Syntactic Model for the Analysis of Language Mixing Phenomena: American Norwegian and Beyond / Tor A. Åfarli -- 3 An Early Stage of the Historical Development of Complementizer Agreement: Evidence from Wisconsin Heritage German / Joshua Bousquette -- 4 Verb Second and Finiteness Morphology in Norwegian Heritage Language of the American Midwest / Kristin Melum Eide and Arnstein Hjelde -- 5 Where Discourse Structure and a Heritage Language Meet: Oral History Interviews of Swedish Americans / Angela Falk -- 6 Noun Phrase Case Shift in Volga German Varieties on the Great Plains of Kansas / William D. Keel -- 7 Incomplete Acquisition and Verb Placement in Heritage Scandinavian / Ida Larsson and Janne Bondi Johannessen -- 8 Language Shift, Religious Identity, and Phonological Traces of Pennsylvania German in Pennsylvania English: The Laxing of Unstressed /i/ among Pennsylvania German Anabaptists / B. Richard Page -- 9 Minimizing (Interface) Domains: The Loss of Long-Distance Binding in North American Icelandic / Michael T. Putnam and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir -- 10 Sociolinguistic and Syntactic Variation in Wisconsin German Narratives / Alyson Sewell -- Index of Authors Cited.