Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857–1887.

This volume provides a collection of research reports on multilingualism and language contact ranging from Romance, to Germanic, Greco and Slavic languages in s

This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and rel

The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different granularities. The language-particular component of a grammar is now usually as

The Germanic language family ranges from national languages with standardized varieties, including German, Dutch and Danish, to minority languages with relative