Constructional change in North American Danish transitional verbs: The case of var født/konfirmeret/gift
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Constructional change in North American Danish transitional verbs: The case of var født/konfirmeret/gift. / Kühl, Karoline.
Selected proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, 2017. red. / Karoline Kühl; Jan Heegård Petersen; Janne Bondi Johannessen; Michael Putnam. Somerville, MA, USA : Cascadilla, 2018. s. 63-70 (Cascadilla Proceedings Project).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Constructional change in North American Danish transitional verbs: The case of var født/konfirmeret/gift
AU - Kühl, Karoline
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper focuses on structural changes in Danish as an immigrant minority language in North America, i.e., language change under the conditions of language contact. Two corpora, the Corpus of North American Danish and the LANCHART corpus (both University of Copenhagen), provide data for a contrastive analysis of auxiliary choice in three verb phrases with transitional biographical verbs (født 'born', konfirmeret 'confirmed' and gift 'married') in North American Danish and modern spoken Danish. Taking a Construction Grammar approach, the author argues that the changes in auxiliary choice, namely the use of var 'was' instead of blev 'became', are the result of cross-linguistic analogy building by the bilingual speakers of North American Danish. The analogical leveling of North American Danish with English leads to constructional change in form and function as well as in frequency and prototype.
AB - This paper focuses on structural changes in Danish as an immigrant minority language in North America, i.e., language change under the conditions of language contact. Two corpora, the Corpus of North American Danish and the LANCHART corpus (both University of Copenhagen), provide data for a contrastive analysis of auxiliary choice in three verb phrases with transitional biographical verbs (født 'born', konfirmeret 'confirmed' and gift 'married') in North American Danish and modern spoken Danish. Taking a Construction Grammar approach, the author argues that the changes in auxiliary choice, namely the use of var 'was' instead of blev 'became', are the result of cross-linguistic analogy building by the bilingual speakers of North American Danish. The analogical leveling of North American Danish with English leads to constructional change in form and function as well as in frequency and prototype.
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M3 - Article in proceedings
T3 - Cascadilla Proceedings Project
SP - 63
EP - 70
BT - Selected proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, 2017
A2 - Kühl, Karoline
A2 - Heegård Petersen, Jan
A2 - Bondi Johannessen, Janne
A2 - Putnam, Michael
PB - Cascadilla
CY - Somerville, MA, USA
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