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Stable and vulnerable domains in Germanic heritage languages
This paper provides an overview of Germanic languages as heritage languages, i.e. languages acquired naturalistically by children in parts of the world where these languages are not the majority language.
Marit Westergaard, T. Kupisch
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Limits on P: filling in holes vs. falling in holes
All Germanic languages make extensive use of verb-particle combinations (known as separable-prefix verbs in the OV languages). I show some basic differences here distinguishing the Scandinavian type from the OV West Germanic languages, with English ...
Peter Svenonius
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Collective nouns denoting trees in the Scandinavian languages
This article discusses the collective names of trees used in the Scandinavian languages, as well as the formation process of similar collective names in Eastern and Western Germanic.
G. Habrajska, M. Rychło, K. Witczak
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Etnolingvistiniai santykiai priešistorinėje Šiaurės rytų Europoje
ETHNOLINGUISTIC SITUATION IN THE PREHISTORIC NORTH-EAST EUROPESummaryThe hitherto known facts allow to state that in the period between the disintegration of Indo-European community and the expansion of Mongolian-Turkic peoples four groups of langua ...
Leszek Bednarczuk
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The Ethnonym русь and the East-Germanic *rauþs ‘Red’: new contributions to the hypothesis
The author draws attention to a number of important unresolved problems (including those recognized by leading supporters) of the currently dominant variant of the Scandinavian etymology behind of the ethnonym Rus’/русь, He argues a new version of the
A. Romanchuk
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This is a miscellany of 12 articles selected from such periodicals as The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Language, Arkiv för nordisk filologi, PMLA, Budkavlen etc, issued between 1932 and 1964. The editor A.
Dora Maček
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Just like the vast majority of the Germanic languages, the Scandinavian languages are verb second (V2) languages where the finite verb occupies the second position in declarative clauses allowing just one constituent to precede ...
Østbø Munch, Christine B.
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There was a strong influence from the Low German language on the languages in Scandinavia in late medieval times due to the considerable economical and cultural contact and interaction between northern Germany and the Scandinavian countries in this period, especially the Hanse trade.
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Etnografiske tilnærminger til andrespråksforskning
Denne artikkelen gir en oversikt over etnografiske forskningsmetoder med relevans for andrespråkslæring i og utenfor klasserommet. Etnografiske metoder kan belyse mange spørsmål om andrespråkslæring, enten som overordnet metodologi eller i kombinasjon ...
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