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Germanic languages
About: Germanic languages is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1911 publications have been published within this topic receiving 23792 citations. The topic is also known as: Germanic family & Teutonic languages.
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1 Mar 1988
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of contact-induced languages in terms of the degree of contact and the amount of structural borrowing, and the extent of interference.
Abstract: PREFACE 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Boas vs. Sapir on foreign influence vs. genetic inheritance 1.2. What "genetic relationship" means 2. THE FAILURE OF LINGUISTIC CONSTRAINTS ON INTERFERENCE 2.1. Typological constraints 2.2. Implicational universal constraints 2.3. Constraints based on naturalness 2.4. Conclusion 3. CONTACT-INDUCED LANGUAGE CHANGE: AN ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK 3.1. Borrowing vs. interference through shift 3.2. Predicting extent and kinds of interference 3.3. Explaining linguistic changes: when is an external explanation appropriate? 4. LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE 4.1. Intensity of contact and typological distance 4.2. Casual to not-so-casual contact: exclusively lexical to slight structural borrowing 4.2.1. Category (1): lexical borrowing only 4.2.2. Categories (2) and (3): slight structural borrowing 4.3. Intense contact: moderate to heavy structural borrowing 4.3.1. Category (4): moderate structural borrowing 4.3.2. Category (5): heavy structural borrowing 4.3.3. Sprachbund 4.3.4. Typologically favored borrowing 4.4. Overwhelming cultural pressure: replacement of large portions of the inherited grammar 5. LANGUAGE SHIFT WITH NORMAL TRANSMISSION 5.1. Problems in demonstrating interference through shift 5.2. Some linguistic results of shift 5.2.1. Preliminary remarks 5.2.2. Shift without interference 5.2.3. Slight interference 5.2.4. Moderate to heavy interference 6. SHIFT WITHOUT NORMAL TRANSMISSION: ABRUPT CREOLIZATION 7. PIDGINS 7.1. Definitions and theories of pidginization 7.2. Pidgin genesis as a result of mutual linguistic accommodation 7.3. Examples: diversity in pidgin structures 7.4. Pidgin genesis and contact-induced language change 7.5. Monogenesis and the probability of pidginization 8. RETROSPECTION 8.1. Genetic relationship and the products of contact-induced language change 8.2. Comparative reconstruction and contactinduced language change 8.3. Conclusion 9. CASE STUDIES 9.1. Asia Minor Greek: a case of heavy borrowing 9.2. Ma'a 9.3. Michif 9.4. Mednyj Aleut 9.5. Uralic substratum interference in Slavic and Baltic 9.6. Afrikaans 9.7. Chinook Jargon 9.8. English and other coastal Germanic languages, or why English is not a mixed language 9.8.1. Introductory remarks 9.8.2. Our position 9.8.3. Summary of English sociolinguistic history down to A.D. 1400 9.8.4. The ethnolinguistic regions of Englishspeaking Britain 9.8.5. Overview of linguistic developments in the Middle English period 9.8.6. Norse influence on English 9.8.6.1. The Norse in England 9.8.6.2. Northern English 9.8.6.3 Danelaw English 9.8.6.4. Norsification 9.8.6.5. A model for norsification 9.8.6.6. Linguistic events after norsification 9.8.6.7. Dialects that we consider not to have been norsified 9.8.6.8. The data 9.8.6.9. Distribution of the norsification data 9.8.6.10. Characterization of the Norse influence on English structure 9.8.6.11. How norsification took place 9.8.6.12. The origin of Northern Middle English 9.8.6.13. On the question of simplification 9.8.6.14. Evaluation 9.8.7. The beginnings of London Standard English 9.8.8. French influence on Middle English and the question of creolization 9.8.9. Excursus: simplification and foreignization of other Germanic languages 9.8.10. Low Dutch grammatical influence on Middle English 9.8.11. On orderliness or the lack of it in the rates of linguistic change in English 9.8.12. Conclusions MAPS (for chapter 9.8) NOTES REFERENCES REFERENCES TO MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS (sources for chapter 9.8.) INDEXES: Languages and Language Groups Names of scholars Subjects
1,975 citations
Book•
1 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure offers a detailed study of the clausal architecture of infinitival constructions providing a unified analysis of restructuring, control, modals, and raising.
Abstract: Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure offers a detailed study of the clausal architecture of infinitival constructions providing a unified analysis of restructuring, control, modals, and raising The book critically evaluates previous proposals from both syntactic and semantic perspectives and presents a new analysis incorporating many recent developments in generative linguistic theory In addition to its theoretical contribution, Infinitives contains a detailed descriptive overview of a range of constructions, primarily from the Germanic languages and will thus not only be of value to generative linguists but will also serve as a general reference source for those interested in the Germanic languages
687 citations
13 Apr 1995
TL;DR: The book explores variation in verb movement and expletive subjects in Germanic languages, applying a theoretical framework to analyze syntax.
Abstract: Abstract This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the "logical" subject in constructions with expletive (or "dummy") subjects. The book applies the theory of principles and parameters (also known as the "government-binding theory") to the study of comparative syntax. Several languages are considered, including less frequently discussed ones like Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, and Yiddish.
537 citations
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