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‘Being a good German’: A case study analysis of language retention and loss among German migrants in north Queensland

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1989
Abstract This article presents a small‐scale case study analysis of first‐language maintenance among German migrants in North Queensland, Australia. Six families of German descent were selected for interviews, and the qualitative data obtained was examined in the light of hypotheses forwarded by Clyne (1970,1979,1985). The results largely substantiated
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Germanic Languages in Contact in North America

Over the course of 400 years, numerous speakers of Germanic languages have immigrated to North America. The primary purposes of these immigrations were to avoid political and religious persecution and seek economic stability and growth. These contact varieties of Germanic origin are the intense focus of linguistic research involving multiple sub ...
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The Impact of Language Contact on North Germanic

North Germanic has been in constant contact with other languages since prehistoric times. Early contact scenarios include the contact with Uralic languages within Scandinavia itself. Increasing contact with Central Europe from the Early Middle Ages onward entailed the spread of a wider range of linguistic innovations from (or through) Romance and West ...
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The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North Germanic Languages

The Modern Language Review, 2008
Graeme Dunphy   +8 more
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English as a North Germanic language: From the Norman conquest to the present

2011
This paper argues that Middle English (and therefore Modern English) originates as an amalgam of West Germanic Old English and North Germanic Old Norse, and that the fusion of the two languages dates back not to early Scandinavian settlement in England, but about 200 years later, especially the 12th century during the full impact of the Norman Conquest.
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On the German Language in North Carolina

Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, 1994
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Revising the History of Germanic Languages: The Concept of <i>Germance</i>

International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2021
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Word-stress in West-Germanic and North-Germanic languages

1999
Trommelen, M.T.G.   +5 more
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