34.787, Books: The historical development of the Dutch posture-verb progressive construction: Okabe

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-34-787. Wed Mar 08 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.787, Books: The historical development of the Dutch posture-verb progressive construction: Okabe

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar, Francis Tyers (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Lauren Perkins
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Steven Franks, Everett Green, Sarah Robinson,
      Joshua Sims, Jeremy Coburn, Daniel Swanson, Matthew Fort,
      Maria Lucero Guillen Puon, Billy Dickson
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Hosted by Indiana University

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Maria Lucero Guillen Puon <luceroguillen at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 23:07:19
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: The historical development of the Dutch posture-verb progressive construction: Okabe

 


Title: The historical development of the Dutch posture-verb progressive
construction 
Subtitle: including a comparison with German 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2023 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-historical-development-of-the-dutch-posture-verb-progressive-construction 


Author: Ami Okabe

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934230 Pages: 257 Price: Europe EURO 36


Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the grammaticalization of posture verbs in
Dutch and German. Dutch posture verbs have been used as progressive markers
since the Middle Dutch period. In the modern language, the verbs take a
complement verb introduced by an infinitive marker te, whereas in Middle
Dutch, they are linked with another verb by the coordinating conjunction ende
or its reduced form en, resulting in a structure comparable to verbal
coordination. This Middle Dutch progressive construction with posture verbs
has a parallel in Modern German, namely a pseudo-coordinate construction with
posture verbs. The Modern German construction is thought to be in the early
stages of grammaticalization, in the sense that it occasionally hints at
temporal aspect.

Through a quantitative investigation of data extracted from corpora, this
study concludes that the two Dutch posture-verb constructions are independent
of each other. Therefore, the historical development of the construction can
be described as the replacement of the older pseudo-coordinate construction by
the new construction, which is functionally superior. The present-day German
construction, on the other hand, is generally biclausal and cannot be
characterized as a grammaticalized progressive construction. The comparison of
the Dutch pseudo-coordinate construction with the German coordinate
construction provides insight into the continuum between coordination and
pseudo-coordination. The contrastive perspective also sheds light on the
(im)possibility of forming pseudo-coordination in Germanic languages and the
ease with which posture verbs may grammaticalize into aspectual markers.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=169073




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2019 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
               https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list-2019

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-34-787	
----------------------------------------------------------