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dc.contributor.authorVan Baal, Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriette
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-28T13:28:23Z
dc.date.available2024-06-28T13:28:23Z
dc.date.created2023-12-19T10:12:33Z
dc.date.issued2023-12
dc.identifier.citationvan Baal, Y. (2023). Definiteness marking in American Norwegian: a unique pattern among the Scandinavian languages. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 27(1)en_US
dc.identifier.issn1383-4924
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3136607
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines definiteness marking in American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage variety of Norwegian spoken in the US. The description adds another language to the much-studied variation within Scandinavian nominal phrases. It builds on established syntactic analysis of Scandinavian and investigates aspects that are (un)like Norwegian spoken in the homeland. A central finding is that the core syntax of Norwegian noun phrases is retained in AmNo, while the morphophonological spell-out is sometimes different. Indefinite determiners, for example, are obligatory in AmNo, but some speakers produce them with non-homeland-like gender agreement. One systematic change is observed: double definiteness has been partially lost. The typical AmNo modified definite phrase lacks the prenominal determiner that is obligatory for varieties in Norway. I argue that this is a syntactic change which allows the realization of D to be optional. This is a pattern not found in the other Scandinavian languages. At the same time, this innovative structure in AmNo is not like English, the dominant language of the AmNo speakers. This demonstrates heritage language change that is distinct from both the homeland language and the dominant language.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Nature Switzerland AGen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectnordiske språken_US
dc.subjectgrammatikken_US
dc.subjectsyntaksen_US
dc.subjectlingvistikken_US
dc.subjectskandinaviske språken_US
dc.titleDefiniteness marking in American Norwegian: a unique pattern among the Scandinavian languagesen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2023 The Author(s).en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Nordiske språk: 018en_US
dc.source.pagenumber34en_US
dc.source.volume27en_US
dc.source.journalJournal of Comparative Germanic Linguisticsen_US
dc.source.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10828-023-09149-z
dc.identifier.cristin2215350
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