Holly J. Kennard
List of John Benjamins publications for which Holly J. Kennard plays a role.
Articles
2019 Chapter 3. Pertinacity in loanwords: Same underlying systems, different outputs Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela and Claudia Fabrizio (eds.), pp. 57–74 | Chapter
Native speakers are often surprised by the way different languages adapt their words; the same phoneme may be borrowed into different languages in different ways. Even related languages need not adapt the same phoneme in an identical fashion. Evidence from a variety of languages suggests that… read more
2014 The persistence of verb second in negative utterances in Breton Journal of Historical Linguistics 4:1, pp. 1–39 | Article
This article examines word order in negative clauses in Breton across two generations separated by a gap in language transmission. It might be expected that the V2 constraint in Breton matrix clauses would be subject to change in light of immense influence from French and this transmission gap. An… read more