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Differential Interference in American Finnish Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Donald Wilford Larmouth
Donald Wilford Larmouth*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
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Abstract

The Finnish language in Minnesota has undergone considerable interference through four generations of contact with English, largely because of syntagmatic congruence with English sentences. The noun cases have responded in a variety of ways to this interference, demonstrating that both the degree of boundness and syntactic congruence are critical to the explanation of interference, as case-endings in highly bound environments are much more resistant to interference than those in moderately or loosely bound environments.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , June 1974 , pp. 356 - 366
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Copyright © 1974 Linguistic Society of America

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