Germanic Heritage Languages in North America
Germanic Heritage Languages in North America

Author: Janne Bondi Johannessen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2015-08-15

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9027268193

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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. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.

Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America
Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America

Author: B. Richard Page

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-04-14

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9004290214

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The contributions in Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America advance the ever-expanding research program in formal and theoretical treatments of heritage language grammars through in-depth empirical investigations. The core focus on moribund varieties of heritage Germanic languages extends beyond the exploration of the individual heritage language grammars and contributes to larger discussions in the field of Germanic linguistics.

The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics

Author: Silvina Montrul

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-11-25

Total Pages: 1171

ISBN-13: 110880053X

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Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous languages and historical minority languages. In the last two decades, heritage languages have become central to many areas of linguistic research, from bilingual language acquisition, education and language policies, to theoretical linguistics. Bringing together contributions from a team of internationally renowned experts, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of this emerging area of study from a number of different perspectives, ranging from theoretical linguistics to language education and pedagogy. Presenting comprehensive data on heritage languages from around the world, it covers issues ranging from individual aspects of heritage language knowledge to broader societal, educational, and policy concerns in local, global and international contexts. Surveying the most current issues and trends in this exciting field, it is essential reading for graduate students and researchers, as well as language practitioners and other language professionals.

Icelandic Heritage in North America
Icelandic Heritage in North America

Author: Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir

Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press

Published: 2023-04-14

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 177284022X

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A celebration of cultural inheritance and the evolution of language. Mapping the language, literature, and history of Icelandic immigrants and their descendants, this collection, translated and expanded for English-speaking audiences, delivers a comprehensive overview of Icelandic linguistic and cultural heritage in North America. Drawn from the findings of a three-year study involving over two hundred participants from Manitoba, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, and the Pacific West Coast, Icelandic Heritage in North America reveals the durability and versatility of the Icelandic language. Editors Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Höskuldur Thráinsson, and Úlfar Bragason bring together a range of interdisciplinary scholarship to investigate the endurance of the “Western Icelander.” Chapters delve into the literary works of Icelandic immigrant writers and interpret archival letters, newspapers, and journal entries to provide both qualitative and quantitative linguistic analyses and to mark significant cultural shifts between early settlement and today. Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.

A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages
A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages

Author: R.D. Fulk

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2018-09-15

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9027263132

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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 Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared, with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic and comparing those reconstructed forms with what is known of the Indo-European protolanguage. Students will find the book an informative introduction and a bibliographically instructive point of departure for intensive research in the numerous issues that remain profoundly contested in early Germanic language history.

Heritage Languages and Their Speakers
Heritage Languages and Their Speakers

Author: Maria Polinsky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1107047641

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A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.

The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages
The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages

Author: Rajiv Rao

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-02-29

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1108833101

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The first book-length treatment of the phonetics and phonology of heritage languages, spanning a range of linguistic areas and communities.

Variable Properties in Language
Variable Properties in Language

Author: David W. Lightfoot

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2019-07-01

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1626166641

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This edited volume, based on papers presented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT), approaches the study of language variation from a variety of angles. Language variation research asks broad questions such as, "Why are languages' grammatical structures different from one another?" as well as more specific word-level questions such as, "Why are words that are pronounced differently still recognized to be the same words?" Too often, research on variation has been siloed based on the particular question—sociolinguists do not talk to historical linguists, who do not talk to phoneticians, and so on. This edited volume seeks to bring discussions from different subfields of linguistics together to explore language variation in a broader sense and acknowledge the complexity and interwoven nature of variation itself.

The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics

Author: Michael T. Putnam

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-16

Total Pages: 1207

ISBN-13: 1108386350

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The Germanic language family ranges from national languages with standardized varieties, including German, Dutch and Danish, to minority languages with relatively few speakers, such as Frisian, Yiddish and Pennsylvania German. Written by internationally renowned experts of Germanic linguistics, this Handbook provides a detailed overview and analysis of the structure of modern Germanic languages and dialects. Organized thematically, it addresses key topics in the phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of standard and nonstandard varieties of Germanic languages from a comparative perspective. It also includes chapters on second language acquisition, heritage and minority languages, pidgins, and urban vernaculars. The first comprehensive survey of this vast topic, the Handbook is a vital resource for students and researchers investigating the Germanic family of languages and dialects.

Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language
Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language

Author: Francesco Bryan Romano

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-04-27

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 3110759586

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This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches.