Synchronic variation and loss of case
| Autor: | Weerman, F.P., Olson, M.J., Cloutier, R., Overkoepelend onderzoeksprogramma UiL-OTS, Afd Taalwetenschap, LS Franse Taalkunde, ILS L&C |
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| Přispěvatelé: | ACLC (FGw), Overkoepelend onderzoeksprogramma UiL-OTS, Afd Taalwetenschap, LS Franse Taalkunde, ILS L&C |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Diachronica, 30(3), 353. John Benjamins Diachronica, 30(3), 353-381. John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| ISSN: | 1569-9714 0176-4225 |
| Popis: | A bias towards formal texts obscures our view of language change and gives a misleading impression of actual developments if ‘changes from below’ are in conflict with ‘changes from above,’ resulting from norms that are visible in particular in formal language. A corpus of 17th-century Amsterdam texts with varying levels of formality is assembled to study the loss of genitive and dative case-marking in Dutch. These results are compared with the use of present participle constructions, which serve as an extra variable to gauge how formal a text is. We argue that nominal case-marking no longer existed in informal language in 17th-century Amsterdam and that the genitive became a feature of formal norms and was hence subject to pressures from above. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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