A contrastive grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian / Gertjan Postma.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intro; A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Technical terms; Apophony; Catalexis (morphological -- ); Diepholzer Linie; European Pomeranian (EP); Groningen; Half-strong verbs; Ingvaeonic; Ostsiedlung; Pomeranian; Short diphthongs; Structural cases; Strong adjectival endings; Strong verbs; Subtractive morphology; Vowel mutation; Weak verbs; Phonological rules in Pomeranian; List of catalectic morphemes in Brazilian and European Pomeranian; 1. Historical introduction

1.1 Dialectology of Pomeranian in Europe1.1.1 The n/ø-isogloss in pronouns and the infinitive 1-infinitive 2 contrast; 1.1.2 Strong infelectional morphemes: 'mijn laiwet/laiwes kind' vs. 'mij laiw-ø kind' vs. 'mij laiw-ø Kind'; 1.2 Brazilian Pomeranian; 1.2.1 Migration from Europe to Brazil; 1.2.1.1 Background; 1.2.1.2 Situation in Europe; 1.2.1.3 Emigration to the New World; 1.2.1.4 Summary; 2. Phonology; 2.1 Tressmann's spelling; 2.2 Synchronic aspects: consonant inventory; 2.2.1 Obstruents [bpdtɡk], and [ɦ] vs [ʔ]; 2.2.2 Fricatives [fwszʃʒxɣ]; 2.2.3 Nasals [n/m/ŋ/ŋk]; 2.2.4 Liquids [r/l]

2.2.5 Vowels2.2.5.1 Length; 2.2.5.2 Overlength; 2.2.6 Umlaut or vowel mutation; 2.3 Historical phonology; 2.3.1 Vowels; 2.3.1.1 Heavy roots; 2.3.1.2 Schwa and -(ə)n; 2.3.1.3 Breaking of long complex vowels; 2.3.2 Consonants; 2.3.2.1 Coda /r/ and onset /r/; 2.3.2.2 Intervocalic rhotacism /d/ → /r/; 2.3.3 Palatalization; 2.3.4 Affrication; 2.3.5 Unrounding; 2.3.6 Debuccalization (deletion of [place]); 2.3.7 Complex breaking of short vowels; 2.3.8 Intervocalic voicing; 2.3.9 Final devoicing; 2.3.10 Degemination; 2.4 Monophthongization; 2.5 Assimilation

2.6 Catalexis of final suffixal (ə) and (n)2.7 Breaking; 2.8 Epenthetic schwa; 2.9 On the alternation /ui/ ~ /öi/; 2.10 Contact speech and community mixing; 3. Morphology; 3.1 D-domain; 3.1.1 Personal pronouns; 3.1.2 Reflexive pronouns; 3.1.3 Possessive pronouns; 3.1.4 The "Saxon" genitive with family names; 3.1.5 Nominalized possessive pronouns; 3.1.6 Definite determiners; 3.1.7 Indefinite articles; 3.1.8 The (pronominal) forms 'kainer' and 'ainer' and the loss of nom-acc opposition; 3.1.9 Quantifiers; 3.2 The NP domain; 3.2.1 Number; 3.2.2 Noun classes; 3.2.3 Diminutives; 3.3 The AP domain

3.3.1 Predicative and attrubutive inflection3.3.2 Definite contexts; 3.3.3 Indefinite and possessive contexts; 3.3.4 The case of 'klain' 'small'; 3.3.5 Grades of comparison; 3.3.6 Adjective incorporation; 3.3.7 Material adjectives; 3.3.8 Adjective + Bodypart + ED; 3.3.9 The GE-prefix; 3.3.10 The participial -'en' suffix; 3.4 Adverbs; 3.5 Numerals; 3.5.1 Cardinals; 3.5.2 Ordinals; 3.6 Verbal morphology; 3.6.1 Two infinitives; 3.6.2 Personal endings; 3.6.3 Regular suffixal verbs (weak verbs); 3.6.4 Strong verbs; 3.6.5 On the etymology of the apophonic past marker

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