Zur Dynamik bairischer Dialektsyntax – eine Pilotstudie

Lenz, Alexandra N.; Ahlers, Timo; Werner, Martina

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“…Our PDS data were analyzed according to established methods in interview analyses (cf. Soeffner &Hitzler 1994 andLenz, Ahlers &Werner 2014). For the methodology of interview interpretation in general, cf.…”

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Communication with diminutives to young children vs. pets in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, and English

Dressler¹,

Mattiello²,

Korecky‐Kröll³

et al. 2022

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This contribution is dedicated to Steven Gillis with whom we have collaborated since the nineties within the “Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition” on both child speech (CS) and child-directed speech (CDS) and also about the development of diminutives (DIMs). We investigate parallels in the use of DIMs and of hypocoristics (HYPs) between CDS and pet-directed speech (PDS), whereas CS is only marginally dealt with. When relevant, also adult-directed speech (ADS), written or oral (especially from electronic corpora, wherever available) will be compared. The presuppositions of this investigation will be stated at the beginning of the Introduction (§ 1). This involves several innovations (beyond descriptions of new data), when compared with existing literature, relevant to theoretical and typological problem areas. We will show that also in DIMs and HYPs used in CDS and PDS semantics only plays a partial or even marginal role when using more DIMs to communicate with young children and young and/or small pets, because it is more relevant that both younger and smaller pets are emotionally closer to us, which is again a pragmatic factor. In regard to language typology, we will apply our concepts of morphological richness and productivity, as argued for and supported in our previous publications, to CDS and PDS and show that richer and more productive patterns of DIM formation of a language also have a typological impact on more frequent and more productive use both in CDS and PDS. We will also apply our concepts of grading morphosemantic transparency/opacity, as argued for and supported in our previous publications, and we start to show, as already shown for CS, that also in CDS towards young children (and similarly in PDS) more morphosemantically transparent DIMs are used than in ADS. This is also connected to their predominantly pragmatic meanings in CDS and PDS (obviously not exclusively pragmatic as in early CS). The languages and authors were selected according to who among the participants in the Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition had CDS and PDS available, plus Elisa Mattiello who has collected English and Italian PDS data.

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Communication with diminutives to young children vs. pets in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, and English

Dressler¹,

Mattiello²,

Korecky‐Kröll³

et al. 2022

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“…( CA with a simple subordinating conjunction ob ‚if' (2SG) ob-st-u morgen in die schul gehen wirst. if-2SG-2SG tomorrow in the school go will 'if you will go to school tomorrow' Early dialectological work already documents CA (e.g., Weise 1907), but systematic variationist inquiry only began rather recently and has so far only addressed certain regions of the German speaking area, namely Hesse (Bohn and Weiß 2016), the Bavarian dialect area (Lenz et al 2014), or Austria (Fingerhuth and Lenz 2020). However, from the 1980s on, the phenomenon has repeatedly been the object of syntactic research (Bayer 1984; van Koppen 2017), some of it, in the case of CA in Dutch, connected to the large scale dialectological project Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects.…”

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Language production experiments as tools for corpus construction: A contrastive study of complementizer agreement

Fingerhuth

Breuer

2020

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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The investigation of linguistic phenomena in corpora of spontaneous speech is sometimes hindered by corpus size or by the complexity of the factors influencing their occurrence. Language Production Experiments (LPEs) can specifically elicit such phenomena and can therefore be used to build corpora that allow for their investigation. Yet experiments are a wide category that covers very different tasks, and there is little empirical research that compares speakers’ response behavior to different task types. In this paper, we compare the responses of a group of 22 speakers to a translation task and a completion task, both of which target the syntactic phenomena complementizer agreement (CA). The results indicate that both experimental methods offer legitimate ways to investigate the phenomenon with specific advantages and disadvantages. However, a comparison of results from both tasks allows for insights that a single task could not have provided.

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Variation and dynamics of “complementizer agreement” in German

Fingerhuth

Lenz

2020

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To date, there has been limited empirical research on complementizer agreement (CA). We investigate CA drawing on a corpus of 144 speakers from 13 locations across Austria that was elicited through computer supported language production experiments and recorded in conversations. We investigate the linguistic factors that govern the occurrence of CA, as well as its areal distribution. We further explore the role of CA in speakers’ linguistic repertoires. The study finds discovers that the (non-) occurrence of CA is strongly dependent on the structure of its hosting C-elements and finds regional patterns. It also identifies CA as a phenomenon which speakers place in a non-standard register. We use the collected data to test a theory of the emergence of CA from clitic pronouns for Bavarian varieties of German.

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Zur Dynamik bairischer Dialektsyntax – eine Pilotstudie

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Communication with diminutives to young children vs. pets in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, and English

Communication with diminutives to young children vs. pets in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, and English

Language production experiments as tools for corpus construction: A contrastive study of complementizer agreement

Variation and dynamics of “complementizer agreement” in German

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