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Definite Articles in Low Saxon Dialects: A Case Study in Grammaticalization

Definite Articles in Low Saxon Dialects: A Case Study in Grammaticalization

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Series: Zeitschrift Fur Dialektologie Und Linguistik, Beihefte, Book 191

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ISBN10: 3515133933
ISBN13: 9783515133937
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Published: Mar 8 2023
Pages: 245
Weight: 1.21
Language: English

A prominent characteristic of Low Saxon dialects spoken along the coast of the North Sea, in particular in the Dutch provinces of Groningen and Drenthe, is the absence of definite articles. Despite being quite exceptional for the typology of western European varieties, there have been remarkably few empirical and theoretical contributions. Jeffrey Pheiff attempts to close this research gap through an examination of a large corpus of historical questionnaires studies. The study covers geographic, historical, and functional aspects of this phenomenon, attempting to sketch out a novel hypothesis regarding the grammaticalization of definite articles in Low Saxon dialects.

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