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Noun phrases in early Germanic languages [PDF]
On the premise that syntactic variation is constrained by factors that may not always be immediately obvious, this volume explores various perspectives on the nominal syntax in the early Germanic languages and the syntactic diversity they display.
Bouma, Gerlof +9 more
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Information structure triggers for word order variation and change: the OV/VO alternation in the West-Germanic languages [PDF]
, 2022 The West-Germanic language family is characterized by a remarkable variation in word order. The continental varieties, including Dutch and German, have largely Object-Verb (OV) word order, whereas English has strict Verb-Object (VO) word order.
Struik, Tara
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Germanic diminutives: a case study of a gap in Norwegian [PDF]
, 2023 It is well known that German and Dutch have productive diminutive morphology. What is much less discussed is the fact that several other Germanic languages do not have such productive morphology, notably the Scandinavian languages.
Alexiadou, Artemis +3 more
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Pro-drop in interrogatives across older Germanic and Romance languages [PDF]
, 2021 This chapter investigates the mechanisms of null subject licensing in direct interrogatives, an environment which is generally neglected in investigation into null subjects, using data from a range of early Romance and Germanic languages considered to be
Federica Cognola +3 more
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[R] in Germanic dialects – tradition or innovation? [PDF]
, 2009 The quality of [R] in Germanic dialects is one of the most discussed phonological topics in Historical Linguistics, ircling around one main question: Was it front or back? Scholars have proposed a back sound arisen through foreign influence as well as a
Bisiada, Mario
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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages [PDF]
, 2018 Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old ...
R.D. Fulk
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Schleswig – a region of longitudinal language contact
Globe, 2023 The topic of this article is the structural similarity of neighbouring language varieties belonging to two different branches of the Germanic languages.
Elin Fredsted
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From Householder to War-Lord to Heavenly Hero: Naming God in the Early Continental Germanic Languages [PDF]
, 2017 Using an interdisciplinary approach and building upon earlier work by Northcott, Green, Eggers, Schirokauer, and others, the present study presents a reappraisal of the development of the Germanic vocabulary adopted to designate the divine Lord (God or ...
Moynihan, Michael
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Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, 2017 This paper contends that traumatic memories are not inherently memories of an experienced trauma. It explores a new perspective on post-1945 Jewish-American fiction.
Thorsten Wilhelm
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Weak function word shift [PDF]
, 2004 The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains.
Vogel, Ralf
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