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Werden and Periphrases with Present Participles and Infinitives: A Diachronic Corpus Analysis Werden和带有现在分词和不定式的Periphrases：历时语料库分析

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1017/S1470542721000064

Valentina Concu

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JGL volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Back matter JGL第34卷第1期封面和封底

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1017/s1470542721000210

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Historical Diaglossia and the Selection of Multiple Norms: Mij and Mijn as 1st Person Singular Object Pronouns in 17th- and 18th-Century Dutch 历史辨析与多重规范的选择:17、18世纪荷兰语中Mij和Mijn作为第一人称单数宾语代词

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1017/S1470542721000076

G. Rutten

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Urnordisch: Eine Einführung. By Michael Schulte. (Wiener Studien zur Skandinavistik 26). Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2018. Pp. 154. Paperback. €19.40 非常罕见的介绍对，麦可休特斯堪的纳维亚研究26)裴瑞森出版社，2018年Pp工作. 154 .Paperback .€当晚

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1017/s1470542721000167

Marc Pierce

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JGL volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Back matter JGL第33卷第4期封面和封底

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-11-11 DOI: 10.1017/s1470542721000180

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On the Grammaticality of Poetry: The Asyndetic Verb-Late Clause in Otfrid’s Evangelienbuch 论诗歌的语法性:奥特弗里德的《福音》中的无义动词迟句

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-11-11 DOI: 10.1017/S1470542721000015

Katerina Somers

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A Psycholinguistic Investigation into Diminutive Strategies in the East Franconian NP: Little Schnitzels Stay Big, but Little Crooks Become Nicer 东弗朗哥NP中小名策略的心理语言学研究:小个子保持大，小个子变好

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-11-11 DOI: 10.1017/S1470542721000052

E. Wittenberg, Andreas Trotzke

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JGL volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Front matter JGL第33卷第4期封面和封面问题

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-11-11 DOI: 10.1017/s1470542721000179

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Using Historical Glottometry to Subgroup the Early Germanic Languages 用历史声速法对早期日耳曼语进行分类

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-11-11 DOI: 10.1017/S1470542721000027

Joshua R. Agee

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Gender Assignment in Six North Scandinavian Languages: Patterns of Variation and Change 六种北斯堪的纳维亚语言的性别分配：变异和变化模式

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/S1470542720000173

Briana Van Epps, G. Carling, Y. Sapir

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