Marc Pierce
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marc Pierce plays a role.
Articles
2020. Review of Goblirsch (2018): Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening. On the History of Quantity in Germanic. NOWELE 73:2, pp. 299–309
Review
2016. Review of Kroonen (2013): Etymological dictionary of Proto-Germanic. Diachronica 33:1, pp. 144–149
Review
2015. The History of Front Rounded Vowels in New Braunfels German. Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 117–132
While earlier studies of New Braunfels German (NBG), a dialect of Texas German (TxG), e.g., Eikel (1954, 1966b) and Gilbert (1972), report the existence of front rounded vowels to various degrees, they are almost completely absent from present-day NBG (Boas 2009). This paper describes the history… read more | Article
2014. Review of Hünecke & Jakob (2012): Die obersächsische Sprachlandschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Journal of Historical Linguistics 4:2, pp. 301–304
Review
2014. Review of Fritz (2011): Der Dual im Indogermanischen: Genealogischer und typologischer Vergleich einer grammatischen Kategorie im Wandel. Journal of Historical Linguistics 4:1, pp. 133–136
Review
2011. Lexical developments in Texas German. Studies on German-Language Islands, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 129–150
This paper offers new insights into on-going research on lexical borrowing in language contact situations by presenting a typology of lexical borrowings in Texas German (TxG), a critically endangered dialect that will go extinct within the next 30 years. We show that the lexicon of TxG has not… read more | Article