Magnus Breder Birkenes
List of John Benjamins publications for which Magnus Breder Birkenes plays a role.
Article
2018 Frequency as a key to language change and reorganisation: On subtraction in German dialects Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants, Dammel, Antje, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck (eds.), pp. 57–92 | Chapter
This paper deals with the case of apparent subtraction in number and case morphology, which is a special phenomenon shared by many German dialects. Taking a vast amount of material from all over the German-speaking area into consideration, this paper treats subtraction within a usage-based approach. read more