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The North Germanic Dialect Continuum [PDF]
, 2020 The modern North Germanic languages family consists of mutually intelligible languages spoken in mainland Scandinavia (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) and the insular languages Faroese and Icelandic. The languages have a common origin but have now diverged to such an extent that there are three different language continua with a large number of ...
Page, Richard +2 more
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Proto-Germanicaiin North and West Germanic [PDF]
Folia Linguistica, 2017 AbstractProto-Germanic (PGmc.)aiin stressed syllables shows varied outcomes in Germanic languages (ā, ē, ei), with many of these developments being conditioned by different phonological contexts. This article presents a reconstruction that unifies this variation by assuming that the monophthongisation spread over ‘Germania’ in two waves with different ...
Versloot, A.P.; id_orcid +2 more
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English as North Germanic [PDF]
Language Dynamics and Change, 2016 The present article is a summary of the book English: The Language of the Vikings by Joseph E. Emonds and Jan Terje Faarlund. The major claim of the book and of this article is that there are lexical and, above all, syntactic arguments in favor of considering Middle and Modern English as descending from the North Germanic language spoken by the ...
Jan Terje Faarlund, Joseph E. Emonds
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Germanic Heritage Languages in North America [PDF]
, 2015 This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift.
Johannessen, Janne Bondi +27 more
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Remarks on prepositional object clauses in Germanic [PDF]
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020 This paper analyses the variation we find in the realization of finite clausal complements in the position of prepositional objects in a set of Germanic languages.
Lutz Gunkel, Jutta Hartmann
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The explananda in North Germanic Tonogenesis
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo"The article discusses two explananda relating to tonogenesis in North Germanic: A) the origin of a tonal representation, B) the origin of a lexical distinction. Tradition has largely focused on B before A. I elucidate the assumptions of B > A hypothesis
Tomas Riad
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Foot structure in Germanic [PDF]
, 2023 A foot is an organising unit of prosodic structure built on moras and syllables. Prominence falls on the heads of feet, and feet can be right or left-headed (an iamb or a trochee, respectively). Feet can be constructed from the right or the left edge and
Booth, Joshua, Lahiri, Aditi
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Tonal stability and tonogenesis in North Germanic [PDF]
, 2016 The origin of North Germanic tonal accents is a question with a long history and a range of available answers. Although the basic facts are not in dispute, the accents’ historical development remains controversial.
Pavel Iosad
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Gender assignment in six North Scandinavian languages [Elektronisk resurs] : Patterns of variation and change [PDF]
, 2021 This study addresses gender assignment in six North Scandinavian varieties with a three-gender system: Old Norse, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Old Swedish, Nysvenska, Jamtlandic, and Elfdalian.
Carling, Gerd, +3 more
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Lat. scrībere in Germanic [PDF]
, 2019 Post-print (lokagerð höfundar)The present article deals with the reflexes of Lat. scrībere in Germanic. It is proposed that the word was borrowed into Germanic at quite an early stage (1st century AD) as a result of contacts between West-Germanic ...
Tarsi, Matteo,, Tarsi, Matteo
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