Abstract
Misionero German (MG), a variety of heritage German spoken in the Misiones Province of Argentina, allows the interrogative pronoun was 'what' to function as a relative pronoun in similar and analogous contexts to those found in Brazilian Portuguese. We argue that this shift in the grammar is the result of replica grammaticalization, likely due to extreme contact with Brazilian Portuguese over the course of the last century.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 613-625 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 1 2014 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
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