Nathan J. Young
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nathan J. Young is involved.
Article
2021 Chapter 8. Benim: A new pronoun in Swedish Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019, Van de Velde, Hans, Nanna Haug Hilton and Remco Knooihuizen (eds.), pp. 181–208 | Chapter
A new first-person pronoun has emerged in the vernacular of Stockholm Swedish. A loan from Turkish, benim is indexically self-aggrandizing and a feature of the male genderlect of Stockholm’s racialized proletariat. It is also typologically unusual by virtue of being a loanword in an abstract… read more
