26.3860, Books: Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Johannessen, Salmons (eds.)

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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:16:35
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Johannessen, Salmons (eds.)

 


Title: Germanic Heritage Languages in North America 
Subtitle: Acquisition, attrition and change 
Series Title: Studies in Language Variation 18  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/silv.18 


Editor: Janne Bondi Johannessen
Editor: Joseph C. Salmons

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027268198 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 0.00 Comment: Open Access
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027234988 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027234988 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027234988 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

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, similar
 ities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes. 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     English (eng)
                     Frisian, Western (fri)
                     German (deu)
                     German, Pennsylvania (pdc)
                     Icelandic (isl)
                     Norwegian Bokmål (nob)
                     Swedish (swe)
                     Yiddish, Eastern (ydd)
                     Yiddish, Western (yih)

Language Family(ies): Germanic


Written In: English  (eng)

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