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Filologia Germanica, 2017 North Sea Germanic languages were closely related in the Middle Ages, sharing many phonological, morphological and lexical features. A conspicuous grammatical parallel among these languages is found in the system of personal pronouns.
Rosella Tinaburri
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Guest Editor's Preface: Germanic Languages and Migration in North America [PDF]
Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 2011 The movement of people and their languages on an unprecedented scale has been exerting increasing pressure on the model of the nation state and the ideal of socially and linguistically homogeneous societies. Sociolinguists analyzing recent changes in language policies and citizenship legislation have focused on the global-local interface, as well as ...
Kristine Horner
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Plural inflection in North Sea Germanic languages [PDF]
, 2018 Abstract The present study explores the variation in the plural inflection of eight varieties of Frisian and English, focusing on irregular plural formations. The aim of the study is to identify and assess the significance of the factors which contributed to the preservation and emergence of irregular plural patterns in the investigated varieties ...
Arjen P. Versloot, Elżbieta Adamczyk
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Prescriptive infinitives in the modern North Germanic languages: An ancient phenomenon in child-directed speech [PDF]
Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2016 The prescriptive infinitive can be found in the North Germanic languages, is very old, and yet is largely unnoticed and undescribed. It is used in a very limited pragmatic context of a pleasant atmosphere by adults towards very young children, or towards pets or (more rarely) adults.
Janne Bondi Johannessen
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Swift Prosodic Modulation of Lexical Access: Brain Potentials From Three North Germanic Language Varieties [PDF]
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing ResearchPurpose: According to most models of spoken word recognition, listeners probabilistically activate a set of lexical candidates, which is incrementally updated as the speech signal unfolds. Speech carries segmental (speech sound) as well as suprasegmental (prosodic) information.
Anna Hjortdal +3 more
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Germanic Heritage Languages in North America
, 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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Phonemic Interpretation of Loan-words from North Germanic Languages in Polish
Studia Germanica Posnaniensia, 2018 There are about 30 borrowings from North-German languages in Polish. They are concerned with broad cultural phenomena of these countries. Phonological analysis of loan-words from North-German languages shows that most of them entered Polish in their written form.
Sława Awedyk
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The two odd ones out among the North and the West Germanic languages
, 2023 Георги Димитров
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, 2019 Since the seminal work by Brandi & Cordin (1981; 1989), the syntactic differences between subject clitics in Italian dialects (Trentino and Fiorentino) and subject clitics in French have been assumed to rely on the value of the null subject parameter: subject clitics in Italian dialects behave like verbal affixes; that is, they do not realize a ...
Tomaselli, Alessandra +1 more
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Lexico-Semantic Group Power in East Germanic and North Germanic Languages: Formation and Development
Žmogus ir žodis, 2014 Maria Fedko
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