From case to topology: Changes in the Late Middle Danish case system and the reasons for them
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From case to topology : Changes in the Late Middle Danish case system and the reasons for them. / Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard.
I: North-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE), Bind 74, Nr. 2, 2021, s. 278-307.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Konferenceartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - GEN
T1 - From case to topology
T2 - Changes in the Late Middle Danish case system and the reasons for them
AU - Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Early Middle Danish texts of the Scanian dialect are characterised by a relatively stable use of case marking for expressing grammatical relations. Later 15th-century texts, however, display a general increase in the percentage of partial and full case neutralisations. Contrary to what scholars have traditionally assumed, I argue that these neutralisations cannot be caused solely by regular soundlaws and analogical reshapings on the expression level of the grammatical signs. Rather, the relatively predictable constituent order in the Middle Danish noun phrase made case marking redundant, causing the case system to undergo a regrammation where the original, morphologically and syntactically based paradigm developed into a purely syntactic one. More precisely, the indexical sign relations changed so that the expression of morphological case no longer indicated the mutual connection between the NP head and modifier; this relation was now indicated only by the order of head and modifier (and by number and gender agreement).
AB - Early Middle Danish texts of the Scanian dialect are characterised by a relatively stable use of case marking for expressing grammatical relations. Later 15th-century texts, however, display a general increase in the percentage of partial and full case neutralisations. Contrary to what scholars have traditionally assumed, I argue that these neutralisations cannot be caused solely by regular soundlaws and analogical reshapings on the expression level of the grammatical signs. Rather, the relatively predictable constituent order in the Middle Danish noun phrase made case marking redundant, causing the case system to undergo a regrammation where the original, morphologically and syntactically based paradigm developed into a purely syntactic one. More precisely, the indexical sign relations changed so that the expression of morphological case no longer indicated the mutual connection between the NP head and modifier; this relation was now indicated only by the order of head and modifier (and by number and gender agreement).
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - gammeldansk
KW - middeldansk
KW - kasus
KW - topologi
KW - indeksikalitet
KW - grammatikalisering
KW - kongruens
KW - Middle Danish
KW - case
KW - topology
KW - indexicality
KW - grammaticalisation
KW - agreement
M3 - Conference article
VL - 74
SP - 278
EP - 307
JO - NOWELE
JF - NOWELE
SN - 0108-8416
IS - 2
ER -
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