In Titsch, a Walser German dialect spoken in the Aosta Valley, a remodeling of the old strong/weak verb classes found in the rest of the Germanic languages has taken place, whereby verbs belonging to the strong class turn out to display both strong and weak past participles. This outcome results from the reuse or exaptation of the original morphological differentiation based on a purely lexically-governed distribution which has been remotivated by associating the morphological features with specific constructional schemas resulting from several processes of grammaticalization.
Titolo: | Remotivating inflectional classes: An unexpected effect of grammaticalization | |
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Autori: | Livio Gaeta | |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2020 | |
Abstract: | In Titsch, a Walser German dialect spoken in the Aosta Valley, a remodeling of the old strong/weak verb classes found in the rest of the Germanic languages has taken place, whereby verbs belonging to the strong class turn out to display both strong and weak past participles. This outcome results from the reuse or exaptation of the original morphological differentiation based on a purely lexically-governed distribution which has been remotivated by associating the morphological features with specific constructional schemas resulting from several processes of grammaticalization. | |
Editore: | John Benjamins | |
Titolo del libro: | Historical Linguistics 2017. Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017 | |
Collana: | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory | |
Volume: | 350 | |
Pagina iniziale: | 205 | |
Pagina finale: | 227 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1075/cilt.350.10gae | |
ISBN: | 9789027204790 | |
Parole Chiave: | Language change, Morphology, Inflection, Grammaticalization, Germanic Languages, Language Contact | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 02A-Contributo in volume |
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