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dc.contributor.authorAnderssen, Merete
dc.contributor.authorWestergaard, Marit
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-12T14:12:12Z
dc.date.available2020-11-12T14:12:12Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-29
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates two word order phenomena in Norwegian heritage language spoken in the US, subject shift (SS) and object shift (OS). SS and OS occur in syntactic environments where (pronominal) subjects and objects may either precede or follow negation. This paper explores to what extent these two phenomena in Heritage Norwegian are affected by the factors frequency and structural similarity/difference. As subjects are frequently shifted, while objects are not, SS is expected to be robust and OS vulnerable. There is generally no structural overlap between English and Norwegian in these cases; thus, cross-linguistic similarity or difference should not play a role, except in one context: questions with auxiliaries or be, in which the two languages allow both orders (is he not/isn’t he ), but have opposite preferences. The results show that OS is somewhat vulnerable, but SS is also affected, in that both proficient and less proficient speakers seem to overuse the word order preferred in English. We thus speculate that all heritage speakers may be affected by cross-linguistic influence in situations with complete structural overlap.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is the accepted manuscript version of a book chapter that is under copyright. For re-use of the material in any form the publisher should be contacted. <p> <p>Source at <a href=https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.59>https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.59. </a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationAnderssen MA, Westergaard M: Word order variation in heritage languages: Subject shift and object shift in Norwegian . In: Brehmer, Treffers-Daller J. Lost in Transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development, 2020. John Benjamins Publishing Company p. 100-124en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1810380
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.59.04and
dc.identifier.isbn9789027205391
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/19839
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins Publishingen_US
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 250857en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holder© John Benjamins.en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en_US
dc.titleWord order variation in heritage languages: Subject shift and object shift in Norwegianen_US
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