Redundant indexicality and paradigmatic reorganisations in the Middle Danish case system
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Redundant indexicality and paradigmatic reorganisations in the Middle Danish case system. / Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard.
Paradigms regained: Theoretical and empirical arguments for the reassessment of the notion of paradigm. red. / Gabriele Diewald; Katja Politt. Berlin : Language Science Press, 2022. s. 173-200 (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Redundant indexicality and paradigmatic reorganisations in the Middle Danish case system
AU - Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Danish case system changed profoundly throughout the Middle Danish era. Based on examples from mainly three texts written in East Danish (Scanian dialect), I describe the steps of and stages in these changes and claim that they were caused neither by an unstressed-vowel-neutralising sound law nor by language contact as often assumed, but by various interrelated processes of grammaticalisation. I focus on one of these processes, viz., that the fixed topology of the Middle Danish noun phrase simply made noun-phrase internal agreement by means of case marking redundant and caused the loss of the indexical relations signalling this agreement, which, in turn, contributed to the gradual phase-out of case marking. Moreover, I relate this phase-out to two general linguistic principles, viz. those of markedness agreement (Andersen 2001: 27–37) and single encoding (Norde 2001: 258–261). Finally, based on Nørgård-Sørensen & al. (2011: 5–6) and Nørgård-Sørensen & Heltoft’s (2015: 262–263) five criteria for what constitutes a grammatical paradigm, I also demonstrate that, irrespective of the existence of some level of free variation, the Middle Danish case system may be described paradigmatically and, correspondingly, that the changes it undergoes constitutes an instance of paradigmatic and thus grammatical change.
AB - The Danish case system changed profoundly throughout the Middle Danish era. Based on examples from mainly three texts written in East Danish (Scanian dialect), I describe the steps of and stages in these changes and claim that they were caused neither by an unstressed-vowel-neutralising sound law nor by language contact as often assumed, but by various interrelated processes of grammaticalisation. I focus on one of these processes, viz., that the fixed topology of the Middle Danish noun phrase simply made noun-phrase internal agreement by means of case marking redundant and caused the loss of the indexical relations signalling this agreement, which, in turn, contributed to the gradual phase-out of case marking. Moreover, I relate this phase-out to two general linguistic principles, viz. those of markedness agreement (Andersen 2001: 27–37) and single encoding (Norde 2001: 258–261). Finally, based on Nørgård-Sørensen & al. (2011: 5–6) and Nørgård-Sørensen & Heltoft’s (2015: 262–263) five criteria for what constitutes a grammatical paradigm, I also demonstrate that, irrespective of the existence of some level of free variation, the Middle Danish case system may be described paradigmatically and, correspondingly, that the changes it undergoes constitutes an instance of paradigmatic and thus grammatical change.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - gammeldansk
KW - middeldansk
KW - kasus
KW - topologi
KW - indeksikalitet
KW - grammatikalisering
KW - paradigme
KW - kongruens
KW - Middle Danish
KW - case
KW - topology
KW - indexicality
KW - grammaticalisation
KW - paradigm
KW - agreement
U2 - 10.5281/zenodo.5675849
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.5675849
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-3-96110-326-3
T3 - Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax
SP - 173
EP - 200
BT - Paradigms regained
A2 - Diewald, Gabriele
A2 - Politt, Katja
PB - Language Science Press
CY - Berlin
ER -
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