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Publication details [#65580]

Westergaard, Marit R., Merete Anderssen and Björn Lundquist. 2018. Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in bilingual acquisition and attrition: Possessives and double definiteness in Norwegian heritage language. Bilingualism 21 (4) : 748–764.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | crosslinguistic perspective | monolingualism | possessive construction | word order

Language as a subject

English, American | Norwegian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This inquiry explores possessives and modified definite DPs in a corpus of heritage Norwegian spoken in the US. Both structures include variation in Norwegian – two word orders for possessives (pre- and postnominal) and two definiteness exponents (a prenominal determiner and a suffix) – while English solely has one of these choices.