Past participles of strong verbs in Jutland Danish: A real-time study of regionalization and standardization

Jensen, Torben Juel; Maegaard, Marie

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“…Jensen and Maegaard (, ) have compared the same two Jutland sites with respect to two different past participle suffixes. They find that the Copenhagen variant has advanced further at the cost of the local variant, and in an earlier generation, in Odder than in Vinderup, the more rural of the two, thereby supporting the idea of a difference between the two sites with respect to the diffusion of the Copenhagen speech.…”

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Diffusion of language change: Accommodation to a moving target

Maegaard

Jensen

Kristiansen

et al. 2013

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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The paper focuses on motivations for the spread of new features within a speech community, and on the trajectories the changes follow during diffusion. One set of data represents language use, and here focus is on two changes which have been going on in Danish over the past 40 years, one grammatical and one phonetic. The other set of data are results from a nationwide speaker evaluation experiment which tests the subconscious attitudes to different types of speech among the youth in five different places covering Denmark from east to west. Results show that changes spread centrifugally from Copenhagen, even to the extent that reversal of changes spreads from Copenhagen. Furthermore, the attitudes reflected in the speaker evaluation experiment support the theory that language change is motivated by social psychological factors. Finally, it is argued that it is worthwhile considering the possibility of media being involved in processes of linguistic change.Artiklen fokuserer på årsager til spredning af nye traek i et sprogsamfund, og på hvordan spredningen foregår. Et datasaet repraesenterer sprogbrug, og her fokuseres på to forandringer som har fundet sted i dansk gennem de sidste 40 år, en grammatisk og en fonetisk. Det andet datasaet stammer fra en landsdaekkende undersøgelse af underbevidste holdninger til forskellige typer af talesprog blandt unge på fem forskellige steder placeret i en linje der daekker Danmark fra øst til vest. Resultaterne viser at aendringerne i brug spredes centrifugalt fra København, i en grad så resten af landet følger trop også når København reverserer en igangvaerende aendring. De vurderinger der kommer til udtryk i holdningsundersøgelserne, understøtter teorien om at sprogforandring er motiveret af socialpsykologiske faktorer. Til slut argumenteres der for at det er vaerd at overveje mediernes mulige rolle i sprogforandringsprocesser. [Danish]

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Section: The Danish Contextmentioning

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Diffusion of language change: Accommodation to a moving target

Maegaard

Jensen

Kristiansen

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Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…The number of word forms in the radio news corpus is unbalanced with respect to individual speakers; some speakers have only one or two contributions, others have up to 50. This may lead to under- or overestimations of the external factors as some individuals may favour a specific linguistic outcome (Johnson 2009, Jensen & Maegaard 2012). The actual word forms are also not equally distributed in the data set.…”

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Style-dependent rules for reduction: Mixed-model multiple linear regression analysis of reduction phenomena in Danish news readings

Heegård

Thøgersen

2014

Nord J Linguist

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It has been suggested that Danish is a language particularly prone to spoken language reductions in spontaneous speech. Previous studies have shown that reduction phenomena, in Danish and other languages, are rule-governed by e.g. phonological context, word frequency and stress patterns. This paper analyses two reduction phenomena, those occurring in the endings -ede and -te in a genre of spoken Danish which is particularly resistant to reductions, viz. radio news readings. Its first aim is to establish the reduction rules of formal spoken Danish and compare these with the rules of more informal spoken Danish, e.g. sociolinguistic interviews. Reduction of -te is found to follow the same general rules as in spontaneous speech, although reductions are far less frequent in news readings. Reduction of -ede is found to follow rules different from those of spontaneous speech. The second aim is to investigate whether the reduction rules have changed over the 70 years which the data span. It is found that the rules, and thus the style, have indeed changed. The modern rules appear to be simpler and include less complex interaction effects.

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“…: 'they have found.SUP home'). In modern time, this supine is associated with the dialects of Funen and Jutland (e.g Jensen & Maegaard 2012),. but once, it was not restricted to these dialects, and it was used by people of all social classes, cf Diderichsen 1944;Jensen & Schack 2022…”

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The perfect participle and the supine in two chronolects of Danish

Jensen

2023

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Modern Standard Danish distinguishes between a perfect participle and a supine. The perfect participle is an adnominal non-finite form of the verb, ascribing properties to a referent (as do the prototypical adjectives) and morpho-syntactically agreeing with this referent. The supine is an indeclinable non-finite form of a verb, ending in -t, used as a component in periphrastic verb forms. Outside the attributive position, the perfect participle is used in complement constructions with the copula verbs være ‘be’ and blive ‘be’/‘become’; the supine is used in perfective constructions and periphrastic passives with the auxiliaries have ‘have’, få ‘get’, være ‘be’ and blive ‘be’/‘become’. In Modern Standard Danish, the perfect participle has restricted use (it is the marked member of the paradigm perfect participle vs. supine); the supine has a wider domain of usage (it is the unmarked member of the paradigm). In the nineteenth century, this was different. Back then, the perfect participle was the unmarked form with a wide usage domain, whereas the supine had a more restricted use. This paper presents a study of these verb forms in two corpora representing different chronolects of Danish, one corpus consisting of texts from the nineteenth century, one of texts from Modern Standard Danish.

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Past participles of strong verbs in Jutland Danish: A real-time study of regionalization and standardization

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Diffusion of language change: Accommodation to a moving target

Diffusion of language change: Accommodation to a moving target

Style-dependent rules for reduction: Mixed-model multiple linear regression analysis of reduction phenomena in Danish news readings

The perfect participle and the supine in two chronolects of Danish

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