A corpus-based quantitative analysis of twelve centuries of preterite and past participle morphology in Dutch

IF 1.4 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI:10.1017/S0954394520000101

Isabeau De Smet, Freek Van de Velde

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Abstract

Abstract Germanic preterite morphology has been the subject of a bewildering number of studies, looking especially at the competition between the so-called strong inflection (operating with ablaut), and the so-called weak inflection (operating with suffixation). In this study over 250,000 observations from twelve centuries of Dutch were analyzed in a generalized linear mixed-effect model gauging the effects of a multitude of language-internal factors, ranging from various frequency measures to various form-related factors and how they interact with each other. This study confirms the well-known effects of token and type frequency, finding that formal similarities can be both a driving and conservative force in language change and demonstrates that not all members (i.e., preterites and past participles) of a verb paradigm change at the same time, which is both an effect of their frequency and their formal coherence within the paradigm.

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基于语料库的十二个世纪荷兰语过去分词和过去分词形态的定量分析

摘要日耳曼语前体形态一直是许多令人困惑的研究主题，尤其是关注所谓的强屈折（用ablaut操作）和所谓的弱屈折（带后缀操作）之间的竞争。在这项研究中，在一个广义线性混合效应模型中分析了12个世纪荷兰语的250000多个观察结果，该模型衡量了多种语言内部因素的影响，从各种频率测量到各种形式相关因素，以及它们如何相互作用。本研究证实了表征频率和类型频率的众所周知的影响，发现形式相似性可能是语言变化的驱动力和保守力，并表明并非动词范式的所有成员（即前词和过去分词）都同时发生变化，这既是其频率的影响，也是其在范式内形式连贯性的影响。

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期刊介绍： Language Variation and Change is the only journal dedicated exclusively to the study of linguistic variation and the capacity to deal with systematic and inherent variation in synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Sociolinguistics involves analysing the interaction of language, culture and society; the more specific study of variation is concerned with the impact of this interaction on the structures and processes of traditional linguistics. Language Variation and Change concentrates on the details of linguistic structure in actual speech production and processing (or writing), including contemporary or historical sources.