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- Title
A corpus-based quantitative analysis of twelve centuries of preterite and past participle morphology in Dutch.
- Authors
De Smet, Isabeau; Van de Velde, Freek
- 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.
- Subjects
QUANTITATIVE research; LINGUISTIC change; MORPHOLOGY; RESEMBLANCE (Philosophy); INFLECTION (Grammar); VERBS
- Publication
Language Variation & Change, 2020, Vol 32, Issue 2, p241
- ISSN
0954-3945
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0954394520000101