Affiliation:
1. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology https://dx.doi.org/8018 Trondheim Norway
Abstract
Abstract
This study investigates language change in American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage language with a long migration and research history. Specifically, the paper examines the co-occurrence of a prenominal determiner and a suffixed article in modified definite phrases, known as compositional (or double) definiteness (CD). Recordings from three different points in time, recently made available in the Corpus of American Nordic Speech (Johannessen, 2015), are used to track historical developments. The data show that previous generations of speakers use CD in a homeland-like manner. Present-day speakers, on the other hand, frequently omit the determiner, which reflects a language change in this generation. I suggest that this innovation is preceded by a shift in the distributional frequency of exceptions to CD, which is intertwined with changes in language maintenance in the communities. Together, these factors contribute to the timing of the language change.
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