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Date: 23-Sep-2009
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp < lot at uu.nl >
Subject: Inflectional Economy and Politeness: Aalberse
 

	
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Subject: Inflectional Economy and Politeness: Aalberse

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Title: Inflectional Economy and Politeness 
Subtitle: Morphology-internal and morphology-external factors in the loss of second
person marking in Dutch
 
Series Title: LOT dissertation series  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Suzanne Pauline Aalberse

Paperback: ISBN:  9789078328858 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

The second person singular pronoun in Middle Dutch was du. The pronoun du
combined with finite verbs ending in the suffix -s. Both the pronoun du and
the suffix -s are lost in Modern Dutch. The loss of the pronoun and the
suffix is related: there is no variant of Dutch that has a suffix -s that
does not also have the pronoun du or vice versa. The question is how we
should understand this combined loss of the pronoun and the suffix.

The central claim in this book is that the decrease in the use of the
pronoun du (combining with the suffix -s) is driven by politeness. The
plural and polite pronoun gi (combining with the suffix -t) came to be used
in an increasing number of contexts. Although we can understand the
decrease of the pronoun du and the suffix -s as the result of politeness,
the loss of both the pronoun and the suffix is driven by inflectional
economy. The suffix that the pronoun gi combined with was more economical
than the suffix that du combined with. This claim is supported by data on
synchronic and diachronic variation in Dutch.

This study is of interest to scholars working in the field of historical
linguistics, corpus linguistics, pragmatics and inflectional morphology. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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