Papers by Stefan Sassenberg
This dissertation focuses on Hungarian-Romanian language contact in Northwest Romania. In the bil... more This dissertation focuses on Hungarian-Romanian language contact in Northwest Romania. In the bilingual region of Crişana, a major ethnographic change has occurred since 1920. This has resulted in Hungarians becoming the minority. Migration of ethnic Romanians from the countryside into the cities caused a significant sociolinguistic split between modern urban and traditional rural populations. There has been no sociolinguistic study of the Romanian language in this region up to now. Prior dialect research in the 1960s and 1970s limited itself to contact-induced language change. It contains conflicting views of a number of features of the old, rural Crişana subdialect: mid-open vowels, quantity variation of all vowels, and palatal stops and nasals. Since these features appear in Hungarian too, some scholars consider them to be loans from the contact language, while others do not. An analysis of folk-linguistic beliefs may help explain these inconsistencies. Prior research has not con...
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Papers by Stefan Sassenberg