Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1017/s1470542722000198
Jens Fleischhauer
The paper presents a detailed corpus-based analysis of the German prospective stehen vor NP light verb construction. The starting point of the analysis is the claim that the construction is restricted to change-of-state nouns in the NP-internal position (Fleischhauer & Gamerschlag 2019, Fleischhauer et al. 2019). Based on corpus data, I demonstrate that although the construction shows a strong preference for such nouns, other semantic types of nouns (such as state nouns or process nouns) occur in the construction as well. I argue that process nouns in particular require contextual support to be licensed within the construction. In the paper, I present an analysis of the prospective light verb construction in terms of current relevance. This analysis accounts for the observed preference for change-of-state NP-internal nouns as well as for the need to provide contextual support for process nouns. The notion current relevance is frequently employed in the analysis of the perfect aspect; the current paper represents the first attempt to extend this notion to the prospective aspect.*
本文以语料库为基础，详细分析了德语前景动词动词NP轻动词结构。分析的出发点是认为这种结构仅限于np内位置的状态变化名词(Fleischhauer &Gamerschlag 2019, Fleischhauer et al. 2019)。基于语料库数据，我证明了尽管该结构显示出对这些名词的强烈偏好，但其他语义类型的名词(如状态名词或过程名词)也出现在该结构中。我认为过程名词特别需要上下文支持才能在结构中得到许可。本文从当前关联的角度对未来轻动词结构进行了分析。这种分析解释了对状态变化的np内部名词的偏好，以及为过程名词提供上下文支持的需要。在对完美方面的分析中，经常使用“当前联系”这个概念。本文首次尝试将这一概念扩展到前景方面
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1017/s1470542722000174
Maarten Bogaards
Progressive constructions in Germanic are usually studied as progressive constructions—that is, exclusively so. I characterize this as a top-down approach to aspect, which, I argue, harbors the risk of overlooking relevant language-specific structures that are similar in form and meaning. This paper, therefore, advocates taking a bottom-up approach. Based on a case study of the prepositional progressive in Dutch (aan het-progressive), I claim that this approach is of added empirical and theoretical value. Drawing on construction-based theories, the relevant patterns—dubbed situational constructions—are analyzed in terms of horizontal constructional links.*
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1017/s1470542723000077
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1017/s1470542722000216
Nadine Proske
This paper investigates the aspectual potential of posture verb pseudo-coordination in spoken German. In a corpus study of sitzen ‘sit’ and stehen ‘stand’, it is shown that despite a preference for activity verbs, verbs of all aspectual classes occur in the second conjunct. The posture verb imposes its durative meaning component on the second verb, thus making a progressive interpretation of the construction possible. Apart from this emergent aspectual function, German posture verb pseudo-coordination has a subjective function (conveying the speaker’s beliefs about the subject referent’s stance), and a discourse pragmatic function (information packaging).*
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1017/s1470542722000186
Sophie Ellsäßer
This article deals with the formal and functional development of aspectual adverbs from indefinite quantifiers in German. More specifically, it focuses on the functions of adverbs that prompted their development into different iterative markers. Through a corpus analysis of spoken language data, insights were gained into the semantic spectrum of the nonstandard adverb als ‘always’. This adverb can be classified as an iterative and, in certain contexts, as a habitual marker, which has undergone a similar development to the standard language adverb viel ‘much’. The article shows that lexical markers of iterativity and—to some extent—habituality may suggest new avenues for variation and change research. It traces the development of the habitual function of als and offers new perspectives for in-depth analyses of the evolution of lexical aspectuality marking.*
本文研究了德语不确定量词的方面副词在形式和功能上的发展。更具体地说，它关注的是促使副词发展成为不同迭代标记的功能。通过对口语数据的语料库分析，深入了解了非标准副词als ' always '的语义谱。这个副词可以被归类为一个迭代的，在某些上下文中，作为一个习惯标记，它经历了与标准语言副词viel ' much '类似的发展。文章指出，迭代性的词汇标记，以及在某种程度上的习惯性，可能为变异和变化的研究提供新的途径。它追溯了als习惯功能的发展，并为深入分析词汇方面标记的演变提供了新的视角
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Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1017/S1470542722000162
Lourens Visser
Middle Low German is generally considered to be a direct successor to Old Saxon. However, later dialects, including Middle Low German, differ from Old Saxon with respect to a number of features, which is unexpected under a direct succession relationship. To account for the presence of such features, some scholars attribute them to High German influence on Middle Low German (Wolff 1934, Stiles 1995, Stiles 2013). Others, however, hypothesize that written Old Saxon (which provides the basis for the comparison) was an artificial grapholect that reflected Old English and Franconian conventions rather than a genuine spoken language (Collitz 1901, Rooth 1973, Doane 1991:45–46). This paper further contributes to this discussion by examining the systems of degree adverbs in Old Saxon and Middle Low German. Based on data from different corpora, it is shown that the system in Old Saxon resembles the one in Old English, while the Middle Low German system is comparable to the systems in Middle High German and Early Middle Dutch. It is concluded that an explanation based solely on language contact is problematic, and that the grapholect hypothesis has more explanatory power.*
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Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1017/S1470542722000150
Sheena Shah, C. Zimmer
In this paper, we provide an overview of the history and sociolinguistic setting of Germans and German in Namibia, which serves as a backdrop for our discussion of two grammatical innovations in Namibian German. German has been actively used in Namibia since the 1880s, having been brought to the country through colonization, and it remains linguistically vital today. Via a questionnaire study, we investigate the expanded use of two grammatical innovations in Namibian German, namely, i) linking elements and ii) gehen as a future auxiliary. We explore various factors that could have contributed to the emergence of these innovations in order to better understand the dynamics of German in multilingual Namibia.*
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Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1017/s147054272300003x
{"title":"JGL volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s147054272300003x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s147054272300003x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42927,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Germanic Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47609678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1017/s1470542723000041
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Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1017/s1470542723000028
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