Birgit Alber

List of John Benjamins publications for which Birgit Alber plays a role.

Book series

Studies in Germanic Linguistics (SiGL)

Edited by Michael T. Putnam, B. Richard Page and Laura Catharine Smith

ISSN 2452-2120

Articles

Alber, Birgit and Marta Meneguzzo 2016 Germanic and Romance onset clusters – how to account for microvariation Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation, Bidese, Ermenegildo, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni (eds.), pp. 25–52 | Article

In this paper the restrictions imposed on onset clusters in Standard German and Standard Italian are compared to the – minimally different – restrictions in the Germanic dialects of Tyrolean, Mòcheno and Lusern Cimbrian, and the Romance dialects of Trentino. Both standard varieties allow onset… read more

Alber, Birgit 2011 Past participles in Mòcheno: Allomorphy, alignment and the distribution of obstruents Studies on German-Language Islands, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 33–64 | Article

Mòcheno, a German variety spoken in Trentino (Italy), displays an interesting case of phonologically conditioned suppletive allomorphy in past participle formation. Past participle formation involves a variety of strategies, from absence of a prefix, to affrication, to prefixing a CV-prefix ga-. I… read more