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dc.contributor.authorDehé, Nicole
dc.contributor.authorKupisch, Tanja
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-10T12:38:16Z
dc.date.available2022-03-10T12:38:16Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-15
dc.description.abstractThe paper investigates the use of PPs, specifically prepositions and the case marking on their DP arguments, in moribund North American (heritage) Icelandic (NAmIce), using data from a map task experiment. Since prepositional phrases combine semantic properties with morphosyntactic properties, PPs allow us to investigate the relative vulnerability of both domains at once. Our results show that while the prepositional inventory of NAmIce is not reduced as compared to Modern Icelandic, the choice of prepositions is subject to crosslinguistic influence from the dominant language English. For case, we find an increase in the use of nominative and accusative case at the expense of the dative; prepositions may take over case functions too. Our results are in line with previous research on case in heritage languages as well as studies on language change, while partially contradicting the assumption that loss is reversely related to acquisition.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDehé, Kupisch T. Prepositional phrases and case in North American (heritage) Icelandic. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 2021en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1959183
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0332586521000184
dc.identifier.issn0332-5865
dc.identifier.issn1502-4717
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/24370
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalNordic Journal of Linguistics
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 2062165en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titlePrepositional phrases and case in North American (heritage) Icelandicen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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