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    • Adding the microdimension to the study of language change in contact. Three case studies 

      Andriani, Luigi; D'Alessandro, Roberta; Frasson, Alberto; van Osch, Brechje; Sorgini, Luana; Terenghi, Silvia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-04)
      Syntactic change in contact is generally explained as a result of cognitive, structural/typological, or sociolinguistic factors. However, the relative weight of these factors in shaping the outputs of contact is yet to be assessed. In this paper, we propose a microcontact approach to the study of change in contact, focusing on microsyntactic points of variation across multiple language pairs that ...

    • Eliciting Big Data From Small, Young, or Non-standard Languages: 10 Experimental Challenges 

      Leivada, Evelina; D'Alessandro, Roberta; Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-14)
      The aim of this work is to identify and analyze a set of challenges that are likely to be encountered when one embarks on fieldwork in linguistic communities that feature small, young, and/or non-standard languages with a goal to elicit big sets of rich data. For each challenge, we (i) explain its nature and implications, (ii) offer one or more examples of how it is manifested in actual linguistic ...

    • Subject Clitics in Microcontact: A Case Study from Heritage Friulian in Argentina and Brazil 

      Frasson, Alberto; D'Alessandro, Roberta; van Osch, Brechje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-18)
      In this paper we present data from first generation immigrants (G1) and second and third generation heritage speakers of Friulian, a Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in North-Eastern Italy and also found in Argentina and Brazil. The target phenomenon is subject clitics (SCL s). We show that SCL s in heritage Friulian are in a process of being reanalyzed from being agreement markers to pronouns. ...