Janne Bondi Johannessen †
List of John Benjamins publications in which Janne Bondi Johannessen † is involved.
Titles
Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language
Edited by Kristine Bentzen, Henrik Rosenkvist and Janne Bondi Johannessen †
Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative… read more
Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change
Edited by Janne Bondi Johannessen † and Joseph C. Salmons
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The… read more2021 The languages of Ethiopia: Aspects of the sociolinguistic profile Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethiopian Languages, Ado, Derib, Almaz Wasse Gelagay and Janne Bondi Johannessen † (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
This book is part of the research work supported by the project Linguistic Capacity Building, tools for the inclusive development of Ethiopia (LCB), which has been working on the development of resources and training of human power involved in linguistic work. The works in this volume are papers… read more
2015 Introduction Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language, Bentzen, Kristine, Henrik Rosenkvist and Janne Bondi Johannessen † (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2015 Övdalian from 1909 to 2009 Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language, Bentzen, Kristine, Henrik Rosenkvist and Janne Bondi Johannessen † (eds.), pp. 11–46 | Article
We present a number of morphological and syntactic properties that Övdalian is reported to have according to the literature. They are classified into four categories, of which we study in particular those two that make Övdalian stand out amongst the Scandinavian languages: the category of those… read more
2015 Attrition in an American Norwegian Heritage Language Speaker Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 46–71 | Article
This paper investigates the language of one person: an elderly bilingual lady who speaks Heritage Norwegian in addition to English. Her heritage language production reveals language that is different both from what we know of Heritage Norwegian from other sources and from European Norwegian, and… read more
2015 The study of Germanic heritage languages in the Americas Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2015 On Two Myths of the Norwegian Language in America: Is it Old-Fashioned? Is it Approaching the Written Bokmål Standard? Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 299–322 | Article
The article discusses two claims about Heritage Norwegian in the American Midwest. One is that the Norwegian-speaking descendants of Norwegian immigrants speak an ‘archaic’ form of Norwegian. The other is that their language approaches the written Norwegian Bokmål standard, i.e., has moved away… read more
2014 A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies, Raso, Tommaso and Heliana Mello (eds.), pp. 69–83 | Article
The Nordic Dialect Corpus project was initiated by the Scandinavian Dialect Syntax Network (ScanDiaSyn). In order to be able to study the North Germanic (i.e., Nordic) dialects, proper documentation of the dialects was needed. A corpus consisting of natural speech by dialect speakers was developed… read more
2012 OBT+stat: A combined rule-based and statistical tagger Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the web to create and investigate a large corpus of modern Norwegian, Andersen, Gisle (ed.), pp. 51–66 | Article
The paper describes the improvement of the rule-based Constraint Grammar (CG) Oslo-Bergen Tagger (OBT) by the addition of a statistical module. It is in the nature of CG taggers to leave some words ambiguous between different readings, due to a lack of coverage by the linguistics-based rules. Such… read more
2011 Reconciling corpus and questionnaire data in microcomparative syntax: A case study from North Germanic Language Variation - European Perspectives III: Selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), Copenhagen, June 2009, Gregersen, Frans, Jeffrey K. Parrott and Pia Quist (eds.), pp. 135–148 | Article