Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America : Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings.

Intro -- 1 Researching Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges and Rewards -- 2 A Syntactic Model for the Analysis of Language Mixing Phenomena: American Norwegian and Beyond -- 3 An Early Stage of the Historical Development of Complementizer Agreement: Evidence from Wisconsin Heritage German -- 4 Verb Second and Finiteness Morphology in Norwegian Heritage Language of the American Midwest -- 5 Where Discourse Structure and a Heritage Language Meet: Oral History Interviews of Swedish Americans -- 6 Noun Phrase Case Shift in Volga German Varieties on the Great Plains of Kansas -- 7 Incomplete Acquisition and Verb Placement in Heritage Scandinavian -- 8 Language Shift, Religious Identity, and Phonological Traces of Pennsylvania German in Pennsylvania English: The Laxing of Unstressed /i/ among Pennsylvania German Anabaptists -- 9 Minimizing (Interface) Domains: The Loss of Long-Distance Binding in North American Icelandic -- 10 Sociolinguistic and Syntactic Variation in Wisconsin German Narratives -- Index of Authors Cited -- _GoBack -- _GoBack.

The contributions in this volume explore the grammars of moribund varieties of heritage Germanic languages and contribute to theoretical investigations of heritage language grammars.

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