Präteritumschwund im Deutschen

Fischer, Hanna

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“… Moreover, especially in German (dialects), there is a general competition of usage between the older, synthetic preterite and the newer, periphrastic perfect. On perfect expansion and (Upper German) preterite loss see e.g Fischer (2018Fischer ( , 2020Fischer ( , 2021…”

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A contrastive approach to grammatical doubts in some contemporary Germanic languages (German, Dutch, Swedish)

Thomas¹

2023

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Unquestionably (or: undoubtedly), every competent speaker has already come to doubt with respect to the question of which form is correct or appropriate and should be used (in the standard language) when faced with two or more almost identical competing variants of words, word forms or sentence and phrase structure (e.g. German "Pizzas/Pizzen/Pizze" 'pizzas', Dutch "de drie mooiste/mooiste drie stranden" 'the three most beautiful/most beautiful three beaches', Swedish "större än jag/mig" 'taller than I/me'). Such linguistic uncertainties or "cases of doubt" (cf. i.a. Klein 2003, 2009, 2018; Müller & Szczepaniak 2017; Schmitt, Szczepaniak & Vieregge 2019; Stark 2019 as well as the useful collections of data of Duden vol. 9, Taaladvies.net, Språkriktighetsboken etc.) systematically occur also in native speakers and they do not necessarily coincide with the difficulties of second language learners. In present-day German, most grammatical uncertainties occur in the domains of inflection (nominal plural formation, genitive singular allomorphy of strong masc./neut. nouns, inflectional variation of weak masc. nouns, strong/weak adjectival inflection and comparison forms, strong/weak verb forms, perfect auxiliary selection) and word-formation (linking elements in compounds, separability of complex verbs). As for syntax, there are often doubts in connection with case choice (pseudo-partitive constructions, prepositional case government) and agreement (especially due to coordination or appositional structures). This contribution aims to present a contrastive approach to morphological and syntactic uncertainties in contemporary Germanic languages (mostly German, Dutch, and Swedish) in order to obtain a broader and more fine-grained typology of grammatical instabilities and their causes. As will be discussed, most doubts of competent speakers - a problem also for general linguistic theory - can be attributed to processes of language change in progress, to language or variety contact, to gaps and rule conflicts in the grammar of every language or to psycholinguistic conditions of language processing. Our main concerns will be the issues of which (kinds of) common or different critical areas there are within Germanic (and, on the other hand, in which areas there are no doubts), which of the established (cross-linguistically valid) explanatory approaches apply to which phenomena and, ultimately, the question whether the new data reveals further lines of explanation for the empirically observable (standard) variation.

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A contrastive approach to grammatical doubts in some contemporary Germanic languages (German, Dutch, Swedish)

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Aspektualität ohne nichtlexikalische Aspektänderungsformen im Deutschen – Zur remotivierenden Aspekthomonymie

Trost

2023

Linguistik in Empirie Und Theorie/Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics

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A new corpus of geolocated ASR transcripts from Germany

Coats

2023

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This report describes the Corpus of German Speech (CoGS), a 56-million-word corpus of automatic speech recognition transcripts from YouTube channels of local government entities in Germany. Transcripts have been annotated with latitude and longitude coordinates, making the resource potentially useful for geospatial analyses of lexical, morpho-syntactic, and pragmatic variation; this is exemplified with an exploratory geospatial analysis of grammatical variation in the encoding of past temporal reference. Additional corpus metadata include video identifiers and timestamps on individual word tokens, making it possible to search for specific discourse content or utterance sequences in the corpus and download the underlying video and audio from the web, using open-source tools. The discourse content of the transcripts in CoGS touches upon a wide range of topics, making the resource potentially interesting as a data source for research in digital humanities and social science. The report also briefly discusses the permissibility of reuse of data sourced from German municipalities for corpus-building purposes in the context of EU, German, and American law, which clearly authorize such a use case.

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Präteritumschwund im Deutschen

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A contrastive approach to grammatical doubts in some contemporary Germanic languages (German, Dutch, Swedish)

A contrastive approach to grammatical doubts in some contemporary Germanic languages (German, Dutch, Swedish)

Aspektualität ohne nichtlexikalische Aspektänderungsformen im Deutschen – Zur remotivierenden Aspekthomonymie

A new corpus of geolocated ASR transcripts from Germany

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