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dc.contributor.authorBjörnsdottir, Sigridur Mjoll
dc.contributor.authorWestergaard, Marit
dc.contributor.authorLohndal, Terje
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-19T15:25:19Z
dc.date.available2022-01-19T15:25:19Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-18
dc.description.abstractHeritage grammars have been argued to differ with respect to whether they are an instantiation of divergent attainment or attrition. Attrition and divergent attainment are not mutually exclusive and can even co-exist with respect to the same or different grammatical phenomena, but teasing these apart requires longitudinal studies or carefully selected cross-sectional data (Montrul, 2008; 2016; Polinsky, 2011). In this article we present data from a longitudinal corpus of letters written by a speaker of North American Icelandic over a span of seventy-two years. The earliest letters suggest that the writer acquired Icelandic consistent with the baseline. However, in the last thirty years of writing, non-target forms emerge in the corpus. Morphosyntax, notably grammatical gender and inflectional morphology, is the most affected domain of grammar. In this article we focus on the nature of the changes attested for grammatical gender across time. Our results show that gender assignment does not undergo a systematic re-analysis. However, the non-target gender agreement indicates the overuse of an agreement default, which may reflect a trend towards a systematic reduction of the gender agreement system.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNorges forskningråden_US
dc.identifier.citationBjörnsdottir, Westergaard, Lohndal. The Effects of Attrition on Grammatical Gender: A View from North American Icelandic. Heritage Language Journal. 2020en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1872559
dc.identifier.doi10.46538/hlj.17.3.2
dc.identifier.issn1550-7076
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23728
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrillen_US
dc.relation.journalHeritage Language Journal
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/FRIHUMSAM/250857/Norway/Micro-variation in Multilingual Situations/MiMS/en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleThe Effects of Attrition on Grammatical Gender: A View from North American Icelandicen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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