Analysing case in spoken language: A corpus study on East Franconian dialects

Due to phonological and morphological processes, there has been an excessive reduction of case forms in the development of the German case system. Thus, syncretism is frequently found in Standard German and even more so in German dialects, where the process of case levelling is more advanced. In thi...

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Main Author: Sophie Ellsäßer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dartmouth College Library 2017-01-01
Series:Linguistic Discovery
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.476