Perfektkonstruktionen mit ›haben‹ und ›sein‹

Gillmann, Melitta

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“…However, this historical development from the 15th century was not transparent for the emigrating Jews and could not have had any influence on Yiddish. It is therefore much more likely that Yiddish inherited analytical tense constructions (as well as mode and aspect constructions) from German: For example, perfect constructions with HAVE and BE are common already in Old High German and Old Saxon (Gillmann 2016).…”

Section: Germanic Be/have and Auxiliary Selection Hierarchymentioning

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“…It should be noted that there are a number of other theories and models that have been developed specifically for Germanic languages (usually German; for example, Perlmutter 1978, Grewendorf 1989, Shannon 1989, Gillmann 2015, 2016; see also Kailuweit & Rosemeyer 2015). These, however, rely on additional assumptions that the ASH does not need (for example, form=function; broader concepts of ergativity and aspect).…”

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Auxiliary Selection in Yiddish Dialects

Schäfer

2022

J Ger Ling

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The variation of the two past tense auxiliaries (HAVE and BE) is a well-studied phenomenon in European languages, especially in the West Germanic varieties. So far, however, the situation in Eastern Yiddish has not been examined. This paper focuses on auxiliary selection in these Yiddish dialects based on data from the Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry, which were collected in the 1960s. Like most of the current works on this topic, the following analysis uses and discusses Sorace’s (1993, 2000) Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy, which allows to examine the Yiddish structures in light of historical and diatopic evidence from other Germanic varieties, particularly German and Dutch. The main focus is on intransitive verbs that show a high degree of variation—state verbs, controlled and uncontrolled motional process verbs, and change-of-state verbs. However, the Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy also has weaknesses, as is demonstrated in the following.*

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Section: Germanic Be/have and Auxiliary Selection Hierarchymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Germanic Be/have and Auxiliary Selection Hierarchymentioning

confidence: 99%

Auxiliary Selection in Yiddish Dialects

Schäfer

2022

J Ger Ling

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Chapter 4. The development of the perfect in selected Middle and New Germanic languages

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2020

Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond

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Reichenbach meets underspecification

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Weber

2022

JHL

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This paper investigates the long-term diachronic development of the perfect and preterite tenses in German and provides a novel analysis by supplementing Reichenbach’s (1947) classical theory of tense by the notion of underspecification. Based on a newly compiled parallel corpus spanning the entire documented history of German, we show that the development in question is cyclic: It starts out with only one tense form (preterite) compatible with both current relevance and narrative past readings in (early) Old High German and, via three intermediate stages, arrives at only one tense form again (perfect) compatible with the same readings in modern Upper German dialects. We propose that in order to capture all attested stages we must allow tenses to be unspecified for R (reference time), with R merely being inferred pragmatically. We then propose that the transitions between the different stages can be explained by the interplay between semantics and pragmatics.

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Perfektkonstruktionen mit ›haben‹ und ›sein‹

Cited by 15 publications

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Auxiliary Selection in Yiddish Dialects

Auxiliary Selection in Yiddish Dialects

Chapter 4. The development of the perfect in selected Middle and New Germanic languages

Reichenbach meets underspecification

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