Publications

Publication details [#61432]

Lipski, John M. and Michael T. Putnam. 2016. Null arguments in transitional trilingual grammars: Field observations from Misionero German. Multilingua 35 (1) : 85–104.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammar1 | interlanguage | L3-acquisition | language contact | language variety

Language as a subject

German, Misionero

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This field note debates pilot research findings on a heritage German variety, spoken in the Northeastern Misiones Province of Argentina. Sociolinguistic field interviews with 25 consultants of diverse proficiency in the language, display that this variant at times exhibits examples of both null subjects (e.g. pro-drop) and null objects.