Heritage Norwegian in the American Midwest is documented through a corpus of recordings collected and compiled over time span 80 years, from Einar Haugen’s 1940s via CANS up to present-day authors’ own recordings. This gives an unprecedented opportunity study how minority language changes contact situation, several generations under gradually changing circumstances. Since we also have thorough ...

This paper attempts to investigate word order and verbal movement in Moroccan Arabic the Minimalist framework. We observe that unmarked MA is SVO while derived structure VSO. follows an English-like derivation where subject moves from [Spec, vP] TP] whilst verb v T. raises issue of when it comes VSO languages have as underlying order. To derive VSO, we propose T Focus based on pragmatic reasons...

(6) Whoi do you know [thati you can really trust]? (7) Which argumenti do you know [thati Sandy thought was unconvincing]? One could assume that the contrast illustrated in (1) to (5) can be accounted for by considering the grammaticalized discourse functions of the dislocated phrases. In the ungrammatical cases in (2) and (5), the dislocated phrase can be considered a grammaticalized topic – ...

The paper deals with the semantic and structural specificity of political extravaganza as a genre dramaturgy. history this literary dramatic kind also its scantily explored genetic connection pamphlet, which arose in 18th-century English theatre, are briefly retraced. Its artistic peculiarity is investigated by using material from several plays Bernard Shaw, were written 1920s–1930s (The Apple ...

Abstract This article examines the syntactic structure of long gei passives in Mandarin Chinese and argues against prepositional analysis passives. Refining ditransitive verb Lin Huang (2015), we propose that is an object-control which selects a vP complement rather than CP or IP complement. By providing supporting evidence for through drawing parallel from object preposing, show behave on par ...

In this paper, we make three specific claims about German information structure and the interface between information structure and syntax. (1) First, the phenomenon known as ‘Subpart of Focus Fronting’ in German is in fact constrained by discourse context, contra the current literature (Fanselow & Lenertová 2011 on German and Czech). (2) Second, information structure should be present in the s...

In this paper, we will see if it is possible for bare plurals to appear in the topic positions in German and Italian. Moreover, we will compare bare plurals with definite plurals in the topic position in different constructions creating and sustaining the left periphery (together with possibly different types of movements): Topicalization (including Italian " Left Dislocation " , ILD hereafter)...

It has been cross-linguistically observed that topics occur sentence initially (see Vallduví 1992, Lambrecht 1994, Neeleman and Van De Koot 2008). It has also been shown that this generalization is functionally motivated: topics indicate the address in the common ground to which the asserted information is related, and it is an advantage for the hearer if this information is introduced early in...