Variantengrammatik des Standarddeutschen. Konzeption, methodische Fragen, Fallanalysen

Dürscheid, Christa; Elspaß, Stephan; Ziegler, Arne

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“…e.g. Dürscheid, Elspaß & Ziegler 2015;Elspaß, Dürscheid & Ziegler 2017. For a diachronic approach, one can use the ZweiDat database (Datenbank sprachlicher Zweifelsfälle, University of Würzburg, http://kallimachos.de/zweidat; see also Klein, Philipp & Stark 2019), which gives access to an edited corpus of 18 normative texts over time (written between 1573 and 2019) and hence offers insights into questions about (the history of) language norms and the German standard language.…”

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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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Section: Sources For the Identification Of Doubtsmentioning

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

Thomas¹

2023

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“…This change of perspective regards transnational distributions of variants (Niehaus, 2017:85) and intranational variation, explicable, for instance, through cross-border dialectal isoglosses (Dürscheid et al, 2015:211). Pluriareal approaches particularly consider the predominant share of relative variants, variants that, albeit restricted to certain areas, compete with one or more alternatives (Dürscheid et al, 2015;Scheuringer, 1996:152). For instance, considering the distribution of variant x at location X, at least four different scenarios can be assumed, scenarios that can be calculated and expressed in numerical terms (see section 3): (1) variant x is the only variant at location X, making it a highly important variant for location X and the surrounding areas; (2) variant x is the dominant variant at location X alongside the also documented variant y, diminishing the importance of variant x; (3) variant y is the dominant variant at location X, variant x is still documented but its influencing force is diminished; and (4) variant y is the only one, variant x does not appear at location X.…”

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A question of dominance: Statistically approaching grammatical variation in German standard language across borders

Scherr,

Ziegler

2023

J. of Ling. Geography

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This paper revisits the question of national varieties in German, a concept that still has not found solid empirical proof, at least not from a quantitative-etic perspective. The question raised is how data collected in the course of the international research project, Variantengrammatik des Standarddeutschen (Handbook of Grammatical Variation in Standard German), and the application of spatial statistical methods to geographical variant distribution patterns can contribute to this discussion. With the aid of Factor Analysis and spatially modified clustering of variant distribution patterns it is shown that—at least from a quantitative/corpus linguistic point of view—there is no evidence for assuming nation-specific varieties. Importantly, this result does not imply the existence of a homogenous German standard language; rather, it is argued that geographical variation does not self-evidently legitimize the assumption of standard varieties.

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“…Das Variantengrammatik-Korpus ist das digitale Quellenmaterial des A-CH-Projekts Variantengrammatik des Standarddeutschen (vgl. Dürscheid et al 2015). Aus über 60 Online-Regionalzeitungen des gesamten zusammenhängenden deutschsprachigen Raums wurden Texte der jeweiligen Regionalteile in der Zeit 2012-13 gecrawlt, und anschließend nach Ort, Region (‚Sektor'), Land und Zeitung sowie mit einem POS-Tagger (STTS-Tagset), dem rf-Tagger und einem named entity recognizer (NER) linguistisch annotiert.…”

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Trotzdemals Subjunktion in Geschichte und Gegenwart

Schiegg¹,

Niehaus²

2017

Zeitschrift Für Germanistische Linguistik

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Variantengrammatik des Standarddeutschen. Konzeption, methodische Fragen, Fallanalysen

Abstract: Ob es tatsächlich nur wenige sind, muss empirisch geprüft werden (siehe dazu weiter unten); Fakt ist, dass es solche Unterschiede gibt, diese bislang aber noch in keiner Grammatik systematisch gegenübergestellt worden sind.

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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)

A question of dominance: Statistically approaching grammatical variation in German standard language across borders

Trotzdemals Subjunktion in Geschichte und Gegenwart

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