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

by Jeffrey Pheiff and Franz Steiner Verlag

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3515133933
• ISBN13: 9783515133937
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.