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dc.contributor.authorLarsson, Ida
dc.contributor.authorKinn, Kari
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-20T08:47:18Z
dc.date.available2022-12-20T08:47:18Z
dc.date.created2022-12-03T01:34:49Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.issn2226-471X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3038732
dc.description.abstractThis article introduces American Swedish (AmSw) into the discussion of the C-domain in heritage Scandinavian. The study is based on spontaneous speech data from the Swedish part of the Corpus of American Nordic Speech (CANS), compared to a baseline of homeland Swedish dialect speakers. We show that the C-domain in AmSw is primarily characterized by stability; this is evidenced by a relatively robust V2 syntax and left dislocation patterns that resemble the homeland baseline. However, we also show that AmSw diverges in some respects: there are some V2 violations and a stronger preference for SV clauses (subject-initial main clauses) at the expense of XVS clauses (non-subject-initial main clauses). These results are similar to previous findings from American Norwegian. We argue that the diverging patterns exhibited by AmSw speakers are not indicative of any fundamental change in their Swedish grammar. The occasional V2 violations are attributed to parallel activation of English and Swedish, and speakers sometimes failing to inhibit English, which is their dominant language. The increase of SV clauses is analyzed as a preference for the canonical word order of the dominant language, but within the limits of what the heritage grammar permits. The patterns in AmSw can be described as cases of attrition and cross-linguistic influence; however, we argue for a nuanced use of these terms.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleStability and Change in the C-Domain in American Swedishen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 by the authorsen_US
dc.source.articlenumber256en_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040256
dc.identifier.cristin2088100
dc.source.journalLanguagesen_US
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 301114en_US
dc.identifier.citationLanguages. 2022, 7 (4), 256.en_US
dc.source.volume7en_US
dc.source.issue4en_US


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