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This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, as well as lesser-studied ones such as Faroese. While the first part of the volume focuses on diachronic aspects, the second part showcases a variety of synchronic aspects relating to ditransitive patterns. Methodologically, the volume covers both experimental and corpus-based studies. Questions addressed by the papers in the volume are, among others, issues like the cross-linguistic pervasiveness and cognitive reality of factors involved in the choice between different ditransitive constructions, or differences and similarities in the diachronic development of ditransitives. The volume’s broad scope and comparative perspective offers comprehensive insights into well-known phe...
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This article examines the lexically parallel English and German constructions can't stand somebody/something and jemanden/etwas nicht ausstehen können "not tolerate (someone or something)", from synchronic, diachronic, and quantitative perspectives. Syntactic and semantic restrictions suggest that the usage of stand and ausstehen in the relevant sense is older than other semantically similar verbs (e.g. English tolerate, German leiden), while quantitative evidence from corpora shows that the can't stand and nicht ausstehen können constructions are both colligationally stronger than lexical competitors. Evidence from the history of stand indicates that the lexeme stand in the Germanic and other Indo-European languages has a long history of being employed in the relevant sense. The restrictions on usage and the colligational strength of the respective English and German constructions are thus argued to result from the antiquity of the construction and functional competition from other lexemes.
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The rise of colligations
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This article examines the lexically parallel English and German constructions can’t stand somebody/something and jemanden/etwas nicht ausstehen können “not tolerate (someone or something)”, from synchronic, diachronic, and quantitative perspectives. Syntactic and semantic restrictions suggest that the usage of stand and ausstehen in the relevant sense is older than other semantically similar verbs (e.g. English tolerate, German leiden), while quantitative evidence from corpora shows that the can’t stand and nicht ausstehen können constructions are both colligationally stronger than lexical competitors. Evidence from the history of stand indicates that the lexeme stand in the Germanic and other Indo-European languages has a long history of being employed in the relevant sense. The restrictions on usage and the colligational strength of the respective English and German constructions are thus argued to result from the antiquity of the construction and functional competition from other...
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Auch as a Coordinating Conjunction in Transylvanian Saxon German Analyses from Historical Linguistics and Typological Linguistics
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Sara Arndt
In this article, I aim to identify the mechanisms that potentially cause specific language change with reference to the studies of historical linguistics and typological linguistics. In my research, the coordinating-conjunctional use of the focus/additive particle, auch, observed in an endangered minority language in Romania, Transylvanian Saxon is dealt with as research object to demonstrate my hypothesis that certain changes of languages in contact are caused by activation or deactivation of potentials that the form possesses, which could be compared to heredity of species.
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Amir Zeldes, Michael Solf, Svetlana Petrova
The present paper reports on the development and evaluation of a historical corpus designed to support detailed empirical studies on the inter action of information structure and syntax in Old High German (OHG). The creation and exploratio n of this corpus are part of a more general investigation concerning the role of informat ion-structural factors in the explana- tion of
"Hungering and Lusting for Women and Fleshly Delicacies": Reconstructing Grammatical Relations for Proto-Germanic
Þórhallur Eyþórsson
Syntactic reconstruction has virtually been outlawed in historical-comparative research for a long time, more or less ever since Watkins’ (1964, 1976) influential work on the problems of reconstructing word order for Proto-Indo-European. Recently, through the emergence of Construction Grammar, where complex syntactic structures are regarded as form–function pairings, a resurgence of syntactic reconstruction is made possible, as complex syntactic structures become a legitimate object of the Comparative Method. Given the legitimacy of syntactic reconstruction, and hence the possible reconstruction of argument structure constructions (Barðdal & Eythórsson 2011, Eythórsson & Barðdal 2011, Barðdal 2012), a major question arises as to whether also grammatical relations are reconstructable for earlier undocumented language periods. We argue that if the constructions singling out grammatical relations can be reconstructed for a proto-branch, the grammatical relations following from these are also reconstructable for that proto-branch. In order to illustrate our methodology, we show how a reconstruction of the subject function in Proto-Germanic may be carried out, more specifically of oblique subjects predicates like ‘hunger’, ‘thirst’ and ‘lust’ and others, based on the subject properties found in the earliest Germanic daughter languages.
