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doi:10.22028/D291-38144
Title: | Adverbial reinforcement of demonstratives in dialectal German |
Author(s): | Rauth, Philipp Speyer, Augustin |
Language: | English |
Title: | Glossa: a journal of general linguistics |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Publisher/Platform: | Open Library of Humanities |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Free key words: | demonstrative reinforcer German Rhine Franconian Moselle Franconian Germanic Romance dialectal German grammaticalization reanalysis NP DP questionnaire |
DDC notations: | 400 Language, linguistics |
Publikation type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | In the German dialects of Rhine and Moselle Franconian, demonstratives are reinforced by locative adverbs do/lo ‘here/there’ in order to emphasize their deictic strength. Interestingly, these adverbs can also appear in the intermediate position, i.e., between the demonstrative and the noun (e.g. das do Bier ‘that there beer’), which is not possible in most other varieties of European German. Our questionnaire study and several written and oral sources suggest that reinforcement has become mandatory in demonstrative contexts. We analyze this grammaticalization process as reanalysis of do/lo from a lexical head to the head of a functional Index Phrase. We also show that a functional DP-shell can better cope with this kind of syntactic change and with certain serialization facts concerning adjoined adjectives. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.5334/gjgl.1166 |
URL of the first publication: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5384/ |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-381447 hdl:20.500.11880/34449 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-38144 |
ISSN: | 2397-1835 |
Date of registration: | 22-Nov-2022 |
Faculty: | P - Philosophische Fakultät |
Department: | P - Germanistik |
Professorship: | P - Prof. Dr. Augustin Speyer |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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