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Summary. The continental West Germanic dialect continuum roughly encompasses the territory of modern-day Germany, Austria, the German-speaking part of Switzerland, the Netherlands, the northern half of Belgium (Flanders), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and South Tyrol, in northern Italy.
Continental West Germanic continuum. Historically, the Dutch, Frisian, Low Saxon and High German dialects formed a canonical dialect continuum, which has been gradually falling apart since the Late Middle Ages due to the pressures of modern education, standard languages, migration and weakening knowledge of the dialects.
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Mar 31, 2020 · The West Germanic Dialect Continuum. ... Second Language Acquisition of Germanic Languages ... “ L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model ...
Within Europe, the three most prevalent West Germanic languages are English, German, and Dutch. Frisian, spoken by about 450,000 people, constitutes a fourth distinct variety of West Germanic. The language family also includes Afrikaans, Yiddish, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Scots. Additionally, several creoles, patois, and pidgins are based ...
This article examines the syntactic patterns of Continental West-Germanic languages. It explains that Continental West-Germanic dialects display largely identical syntax, characterized by an asymmetry between main and embedded clauses with respect to the position of the finite verb, and by the clause-final position of clusters of nonfinite verbs.
Alternatively, in a dialect continuum, North Germanic may have shared innovations with first East, then West Germanic prior to the final split. Finally, the chapter examines with which Indo-European branches Germanic shares non-trivial innovations and thus, maybe, a common node on the cladistic tree.
The dialects of German and Dutch are historically connected within a continental West-Germanic dialect continuum. German, Dutch, and Scandinavian dialectology has addressed many diverse research topics, reflecting the strong academic traditions and well-documented dialects in all these countries.
