Marc Pierce

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marc Pierce is involved.

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Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce 2025 Chapter 8. The for … zu construction in Texas German Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel, Page, B. Richard and Michael T. Putnam (eds.), pp. 157–184 | Chapter

While Standard German uses um … zu (‘in order to’) in sentences that contain a clause with an infinitive, Texas German (TxG), a critically endangered diaspora dialect of German, employs the for … zu (‘in order to’) construction to mark infinitival clauses. This can be seen in sentences like “Nie… read more

Pierce, Marc 2020 Review of Goblirsch (2018): Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening. On the History of Quantity in Germanic NOWELE 73:2, pp. 299–309 | Review

Pierce, Marc 2016 Review of Kroonen (2013): Etymological dictionary of Proto-Germanic Diachronica 33:1, pp. 144–149 | Review

Pierce, Marc, Hans C. Boas and Karen A. Roesch 2015 The History of Front Rounded Vowels in New Braunfels German Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 117–132 | Article

While earlier studies of New Braunfels German (NBG), a dialect of Texas German (TxG), e.g., Eikel (1954, 1966b) and Gilbert (1972), report the existence of front rounded vowels to various degrees, they are almost completely absent from present-day NBG (Boas 2009). This paper describes the history… read more

Pierce, Marc 2014 Review of Hünecke & Jakob (2012): Die obersächsische Sprachlandschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart Journal of Historical Linguistics 4:2, pp. 301–304 | Review

Pierce, Marc 2014 Review of Fritz (2011): Der Dual im Indogermanischen: Genealogischer und typologischer Vergleich einer grammatischen Kategorie im Wandel Journal of Historical Linguistics 4:1, pp. 133–136 | Review

Boas, Hans C. and Marc Pierce 2011 Lexical developments in Texas German Studies on German-Language Islands, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 129–150 | Article

This paper offers new insights into on-going research on lexical borrowing in language contact situations by presenting a typology of lexical borrowings in Texas German (TxG), a critically endangered dialect that will go extinct within the next 30 years. We show that the lexicon of TxG has not… read more