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Michael Putnam; Åshild Søfteland – Second Language Research, 2024
American Norwegian (AmNo), a moribund heritage variety of Norwegian spoken predominantly in the Upper Midwest of the US, licenses "wh"-infinitives (i.e. indirect questions), which are structures that are not acceptable in either standard Norwegian Bokmål or Norwegian dialects. Adopting a spanning-account of syntax (Blix, 2021; Julien,…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Language Variation, North Americans, Syntax
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Deffa, Oromiya-Jalata – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Contrary to earlier studies dealing with the cultural identity development of diasporic minorities, this paper assesses the impact of homogeneity on intra-group cohesion and ethnic orientation. To this end, Oromo-Americans, an ethnic group originally located within the national borders of Ethiopia, will be compared to Armenian-Americans,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Self Concept, Minority Groups, Correlation