Frisian strong and weak verbs in the face of Dutch influence: a synchronic and experimental approach
Abstract: Like other Germanic languages, Frisian has both strong and weak verbal inflection. Despite a strong diachronic tendency for change towards weak inflection, strong inflection patterns are available synchronically to speakers to form the past tense and past participle of new or nonce verbs. Using a measure for potential productivity developed by Knooihuizen and Strik (Folia Linguist Hist 35:173200, 2014) for Dutch, we investigate the relative strength of available patterns in Frisian in an elicitation and an acceptability judgment experiment. Despite the multitude of different patterns... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Schlagwörter: | Linguistics |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27061438 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/10067/1498000151162165141 |