33.654, Books: Changes in Modern Frisian verbal inflection: Merkuur

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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:10:06
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Changes in Modern Frisian verbal inflection: Merkuur

 


Title: Changes in Modern Frisian verbal inflection 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/changes-in-modern-frisian-verbal-inflection 


Author: Anne Merkuur

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933882 Pages: 324 Price: Europe EURO 36


Abstract:

This thesis is about changes in Frisian verbal inflection. Frisian is the
minority language spoken in the bilingual Frisian-Dutch province of Fryslân.
Besides the fact that all its speakers are bilingual, what makes Frisian
especially interesting is that it features a lot of dialectal variation and,
moreover, that it has a relatively complex inflectional system that went
through some recent changes.

The aim of the research reported in this book is twofold. The more concrete
goal is to give a detailed overview and account of the status quo and the
developments in the verbal inflection of Frisian. The theoretical goal is to
deepen our understanding of why certain changes occur and others do not and
how morphological theory can account for this. With the aid of two
questionnaires and several analyses along the lines of Distributed Morphology,
we specifically test whether we can explain the developments in Frisian verbal
inflection using a model of categorical productivity: the Tolerance Principle.

The results illustrate how Frisian develops as it is passed on from one
generation to the next and new language learners come to different
interpretations than the generations before them. As such, the Frisian
case-study provides valuable insights into the interplay of language
variation, acquisition, contact and change, and brings to light several
limitations and benefits of different theoretical perspectives.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Morphology

Subject Language(s): Frisian, Northern (frr)


Written In: English  (eng)

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