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Loss and preservation of case in Germanic non-standard varieties

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The paper challenges the textbook view that case loss in Germanic is driven by phonology alone. It compares the case systems of Old High German and Old Swedish with two isolated, non-standard varieties that keep full vowels in unstressed syllables: Visperterminen Alemannic and Övdalian. The data are paradigm tables taken from older grammars. For each noun phrase the author derives a "system of syncretism" (which cases share a form), and then checks whether a syncretism in the noun is compensated by an article or adjective. The main result is a regular pattern: nominative and accusative syncretism is never compensated in the noun phrase, while dative syncretism is. The paper links this to word order (fixed subject and object positions) and proposes a feedback loop between word order and case loss, rather than a one-way phonological cause.

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The chapters are 11. Nouns (case, the genitive 's), 12. Pronouns, determiners and numerals (case in pronouns, which keeps its forms) and 21. The simple clause (the fixed subject-verb-object order that carries role information in English). The code is en/src/morph.rs (case forms) and en/src/lin.rs (word order). English has lost almost all case in nouns, like the varieties here, but keeps it in pronouns; the paper's point that word order takes over the role marking applies directly. The measure: role accuracy of en/src/parse.rs on subject and object pairs where the form does not show case, split by whether the order is fixed (preverbal subject). The paper's data are non-English, so there is no direct English number; the card is a design idea.

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The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.5334/gjgl.680

@article{baechler2018loss,
  title = {{Loss and preservation of case in Germanic non-standard varieties}},
  author = {Baechler, Raffaela and Pröll, Simon},
  journal = {Glossa: a journal of general linguistics},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.5334/gjgl.680},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.680}
}

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  71. How to cite this article: Baechler, Raffaela and Simon Pröll. 2018. Loss and preservation of case in Germanic non-standard varieties. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3(1): 113. 1–35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.680 ↗ our card
  72. Published: 23 October 2018 find
  73. Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by Ubiquity Press. OPEN ACCESS ↗

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