Tense and aspect marking in (Low) German perfect constructions based on variety contact

Weber, Kathrin

doi:10.1075/cal.24.04web

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“…Another attempt to challenge the dilemma comes from scholars with a background in the construction grammar paradigm [9][10][11][12][13]. They develop an approach to common language structures which regards multilingualism as an integral part of a grammatical system of a group of speakers.…”

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A Diasystematic Approach to Multilingual Ecology: The Case of Mbum Speakers in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon

Beyer

2024

Multilingualism in Its Multiple Dimensions [Working Title]

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Speakers of the minority language Mbum (Cameroon) live in a multilingual ecology coping with different degrees of interferences from a wide variety of other languages and dialects. They consciously and/or unconsciously insert constructions from different languages in different communicative contexts and often apply mixed codes altogether. Sometimes, they reckon that a given linguistic unit does not belong to one specific language from their repertoire but feel that it is somehow ‘around’ in the multilingual space they navigate. Such statements highlight an epistemological dilemma that becomes more and more apparent in language contact theory: While it is evident that in multilingual ecologies assumptions of single, articulate, static, and ideally variation-free language systems do not at all reflect speakers’ realities, the concept of individual languages that influence each other to various degrees while keeping their grammars neatly apart is generally presupposed for descriptive and analytic purposes. A possible solution for the dilemma lies in the Diasystematic Construction Grammar approach which conceives of a grammar as community specific and not as language specific.

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A Diasystematic Approach to Multilingual Ecology: The Case of Mbum Speakers in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon

Beyer

2024

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Polysemie und morphosyntaktische Variation

Gillmann

Werth

2021

Beiträge Zur Geschichte Der Deutschen Sprache Und Literatur

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This paper studies perfect auxiliary selection of the verb stehen ›to stand‹ in 17th and 18th century corpora as well as in dialect and newspaper corpora of contemporary German. Being restricted to the auxiliary haben ›have‹ in central and northern German varieties, stative verbs denoting the maintenance of a physical body’s position such as stehen are well known to allow both haben ›have‹ and sein ›be‹ in southern German varieties. Our study reveals that this variability was even more widespread in historical stages of German. We witness a preponderance of sein in the 17th century. Over the course of the 18th century, haben usages increased at the expense of sein. Strikingly, only central-eastern varieties tended to prefer haben over all periods under scrutiny. In addition to region, the polysemy of the verb stehen contributed to the choice of the auxiliary in that non-literal or idiomatic usages tended to prefer haben.

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Tense and aspect marking in (Low) German perfect constructions based on variety contact

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A Diasystematic Approach to Multilingual Ecology: The Case of Mbum Speakers in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon

A Diasystematic Approach to Multilingual Ecology: The Case of Mbum Speakers in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon

Polysemie und morphosyntaktische Variation

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