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<p>This study aims at tracing a reallocation process of a grammatical feature alongside the dialect-standard axis with the aid of corpus linguistics methods; more precisely with an integrative application of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The phenomenon under investigation is articles without the definiteness marker <italic>d-</italic> in German, usually ascribed to the Bavarian dialect area. Analyses show, however, that this apparently dialectal feature diffuses to other communication settings closer to the intended standard language use. This process is accompanied by a refunctionalisation of reduced article forms, indicating the relevance of language-internal relations for reallocation of grammatical features. The methodical approach should be easily applicable to other variants and – as many European languages show a diaglossic repertoire – relevant to other languages as well.</p>
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This study aims at tracing a reallocation process of a grammatical feature alongside the dialect-standard axis with the aid of corpus linguistics methods; more precisely with an integrative application of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The phenomenon under investigation is articles without the definiteness marker d- in German, usually ascribed to the Bavarian dialect area. Analyses show, however, that this apparently dialectal feature diffuses to other communication settings closer to the intended standard language use. This process is accompanied by a refunctionalisation of reduced article forms, indicating the relevance of language-internal relations for reallocation of grammatical features. The methodical approach should be easily applicable to other variants and – as many European languages show a diaglossic repertoire – relevant to other languages as well.

Persistent features – Corpus-based evidence for reallocation processes in German

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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This study aims at tracing a reallocation process of a grammatical feature alongside the dialect-standard axis with the aid of corpus linguistics methods; more...

Persistent features – Corpus-based evidence for reallocation processes in German

Pubblicato online: 30 dic 2021

Pagine: 415 - 424

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0038

Parole chiave
reallocation, article system, Bavarian, dialect-standard axis

© 2021 Elisabeth Scherr, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Persistent features – Corpus-based evidence for reallocation processes in German

Pubblicato online: 30 dic 2021

Pagine: 415 - 424

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0038

Parole chiavereallocation, article system, Bavarian, dialect-standard axis

© 2021 Elisabeth Scherr, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Parole chiave
reallocation, article system, Bavarian, dialect-standard axis