Nora Vosburg
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nora Vosburg is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 5. Fast forward: Community development among recent Mennonite immigrants in Kansas Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel, Page, B. Richard and Michael T. Putnam (eds.), pp. 93–114 | Chapter
Since the 19th C, many “German” groups settled in Kansas. Since the 1970s, so-called Russian Mennonites migrated to the US mainly out of Old Colony settlements in Mexico and/or Canada that continued to follow the Old Order. Part of this Old Order is a doctrine of separateness from worldly… read more
2019 Derivational complexity vs. transfer effects: Long-distance wh -movement in heritage and L2 grammars Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:3, pp. 341–375 | Article
We investigate whether non-target wh-questions in heritage Low German and L2 English speakers are due primarily to cross-linguistic transfer or the reduction of grammatical complexity in developing grammars as modelled by the Derivational Complexity Hypothesis (DCH, Jakubowicz 2005). Previous… read more