Language mixing and exoskeletal theory: A case study of word-internal mixing in American Norwegian

Language mixing and exoskeletal theory: A case study of word-internal mixing in American Norwegian

This paper discusses word-internal mixing in American Norwegian. The data show that the functional vocabulary is Norwegian whereas many of the lexical content items come from English. We argue that language mixing provides important evidence for grammatical theory: Specifically, the data support a l...

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Main Authors: Maren Berg Grimstad, Terje Lohndal, Tor A. Åfarli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2015-04-01
Series:Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics
Subjects:
American Norwegian
language mixing
exoskeletal theory
morphology
Distributed Morphology
Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/3413

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