This paper examines the Scandinavian terminology for ‘soot’ in connection with a number of Saami appellatives view to deciding which them are native and result from borrowing. Special attention is paid problem adopting loanwords Northern Europe, especially Peninsula. Two Proto- Germanic words denoting discussed morphological etymological point view. It suggested that West noun *hrōta- m./n. clo...

This paper takes a closer look at the attraction properties of T. It highlights an empirically attested distinction between rich agreement inflection, exhibited by null-subject languages, and rich tense inflection, found in Romance, but not Germanic, and argues for the syntactic relevance of this distinction. We propose a novel typology of the ways in which T's featural requirements can be sati...

Luxembourgish, a Germanic-Franconian language, is embedded in a multilingual context on the divide between Romance and Germanic cultures and remains one of Europe’s under-described languages. This paper investigates the similarity between Luxembourgish phone segments with German, French and English via forced speech alignment techniques. Making use of monolingual acoustic seed models from these...

We provide an overview of on-going efforts to facilitate the study of older Germanic languages currently pursued at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. We describe created resources, such as a parallel corpus of Germanic Bibles and a morphosyntactically annotated corpus of Old High German (OHG) and Old Saxon, a lexicon of OHG in XML and a multilingual etymological database. We discuss NLP...

This paper provides an overview of Germanic languages as heritage languages, i.e. acquired naturalistically by children in parts the world where these are not majority language. Summarizing research on different types speakers Danish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish, we identify certain stable vulnerable domains. We focus so far best studied areas, word order grammatical gender, addin...

Understanding language evolution in terms of cultural transmission across generations of language users raises the possibility that some of the processes that have shaped language evolution can also be observed in historical language change. In this paper, we explore how constraints on production may affect the cultural evolution of language by analyzing the emergence of the Germanic and Romanc...