This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past present. Specifically, the includes contributions a wide variety of languages, including English, Dutch, German, but also Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, as well lesser-studied ones such Faroese. While first part focuses diachronic aspects, second showcases synchronic a...

It is generally acknowledged that Intrinsic Pitch differences are found for Germanic languages. In a previous study we could give evidence for a strong cross-linguistic difference when examining Intrinsic pitch for the Romance language Italian. To examine the possibility of a stable crosslinguistic difference, a perception experiment was designed to examine the existence of Intrinsic pitch in R...

We study the frequency distributions and correlations of the word lengths of ten European languages. Our findings indicate that a) the word-length distribution of short words quantified by the mean value and the entropy distinguishes the Uralic (Finnish) corpus from the others, b) the tails at long words, manifested in the high-order moments of the distributions, differentiate the Germanic lang...

Warren Maguire. 2017. ‘The emergence of Scots: Clues from Germanic *a reflexes’. In Cruickshank, Janet and Robert McColl Millar (eds.) 2017. Before the Storm: Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster triennial meeting, Ayr 2015. Aberdeen: Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ireland, 1-32. ISBN: 9780-9566549-4-6. The emergence of Scots: Clues fro...

Intrinsic Pitch differences (perceived pitch differences between high vs. low vowels) were found for Germanic languages. Our previous results gave evidence for a strong cross-linguistic difference when examining non-Germanic languages. We therefore designed a cross-linguistic vowel pitch discrimination experiment to examine the existence of intrinsic pitch in non-Germanic languages in compariso...

This paper puts forward a new division of the history Germanic languages, taking into account existence three different historical periods (prehistoric, proto-historic, and literary) in development from Common or Proto-Germanic to modern analogously Romance Romanic languages Vulgar Latin (also called Proto-Romanic Proto-Romance), which stages can be retraced: (prehistoric), (proto-historic) lit...