language contact

New book: South Schleswig Danish

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Sabrina Goll (Europa-Universität Flensburg) has now published her Kiel dissertation on South Schleswig Danish (open access). In this study, she analyses characteristic structural features of this Danish variety based on a questionnaire survey from a sociolinguistic, contact linguistic and construction grammar perspective.

New book: Constructions in Contact 3

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In autumn 2025, another anthology on the topic of construction grammar and language contact was published, edited by Hans Boas (University of Texas at Austin) and myself, with eight contributions on various topics and issues in this field: It also includes two theoretical contributions by the editors and a contribution by Anna Hagel, who completed … Read more

Dissertation: South Schleswig Danish

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In June 2023, Sabrina Goll successfully defended her dissertation Südschleswigdänisch. Strukturelle Bestandsaufnahme aus dialektologischer Perspektive (South Schleswig Danish. A structural survey from a dialectological perspective). Her work is the first to systematically examine the question of how grammatical features of South Schleswig Danish – the non-standard variety used by the Danish minority in South Schleswig … Read more

Article: South Jutlandic data from Wenker’s atlas

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My latest paper (in Danish) has been published in Målbryting dealing with the potential of the South Jutlandic data collected for the German Wenker Atlas in the late 19th century. The material has long been dismissed as little useful in dialectology, but in fact it provides information about the extent to which contact-related grammatical features … Read more