Resilient Subject Agreement Morpho-Syntax in the Germanic Romance Contact Area

In this work, we intend to investigate one fundamental aspect of language contact by comparing the distribution of subjects in German, Northern Italian dialects and Cimbrian. Here, we show that purely syntactic order phenomena are more prone to convergence, i.e., less resilient, while phenomena that...

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Main Authors: Cecilia Poletto, Alessandra Tomaselli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/3/119