TY - JOUR
T1 - Null arguments in transitional trilingual grammars
T2 - Field observations from Misionero German
AU - Putnam, Michael T.
AU - Lipski, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by De Gruyter Mouton.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In this field note we discuss findings from pilot research on a variety of heritage German spoken in the Northeastern Province of Misiones of Argentina.Based on sociolinguistic field interviews with 25 consultants possessing varying degrees of proficiency in the language, we show that this variant of heritage German does in fact occasionally display instances of both null subjects (e.g.pro-drop) and null objects.These preliminary findings are consistent with other recent studies in the contact linguistics literature (cf.Camacho et al.1997; Sánchez 1997, 1999a, 1999b; Cuza et al.2013).In conclusion, we introduce suggestions for future research.
AB - In this field note we discuss findings from pilot research on a variety of heritage German spoken in the Northeastern Province of Misiones of Argentina.Based on sociolinguistic field interviews with 25 consultants possessing varying degrees of proficiency in the language, we show that this variant of heritage German does in fact occasionally display instances of both null subjects (e.g.pro-drop) and null objects.These preliminary findings are consistent with other recent studies in the contact linguistics literature (cf.Camacho et al.1997; Sánchez 1997, 1999a, 1999b; Cuza et al.2013).In conclusion, we introduce suggestions for future research.
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U2 - 10.1515/multi-2014-0111
DO - 10.1515/multi-2014-0111
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042540000
SN - 0167-8507
VL - 35
SP - 85
EP - 104
JO - Multilingua
JF - Multilingua
IS - 1
ER -