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

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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Superior document:Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; v. 8
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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.
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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.