Mismatch: Grammar distortion and grammaticalization

Gaeta, Livio

doi:10.1075/tsl.76.07gae

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“…This aspect should not be dismissed as trivial because, as will be argued below, there may be several different types of distortions showing a non-linear development, which increases the grade of complexity and the number of mismatches occurring in a language (cf. Gaeta 2008). In this sense, I will distinguish the propagation of a certain innovation through a speakers' community from the expansion of a certain innovation through a language grammar (cf.…”

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“…Moreover, I leave aside here the case of language contact, which also has the effect of limiting the expansion of a grammaticalization change. See Gaeta (2008) for details.…”

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“…Gaeta 2008). In this light, mismatches arise as a consequence of the expansive potential of grammaticalization, which begins at a certain time in a given context with a specific construction and is expanded, affecting more and more (extensions of the initial) constructions.…”

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“…In Gaeta (2008Gaeta ( , 2010b, the occurrence of the IPP has been treated as an instance of an imperfect change during the process of expansion of the Perfekt construction due to a number of reasons that cannot be discussed here. For the purposes of the present paper, the reconstruction of this historical scenario can be left in the background.…”

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“…I cannot explore the implications of this fact here. For more details see Gaeta (2008Gaeta ( , 2010b.…”

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Multiple sources for the German scandal construction

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2015

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The interaction of several cases of grammaticalization going back to different source constructions may have dramatic consequences on a linguistic system. This paper discusses the so-called German scandal construction, which consists of a verbal complex displaying a number of synchronic form-meaning mismatches. The scandal is solved if a diachronic point of view is adopted, which shows that the mismatches result from the intraference of two different source constructions expanded in the course of the German linguistic history, namely the Perfekt construction and the zu-infinitive construction.

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“…Moreover, I leave aside here the case of language contact, which also has the effect of limiting the expansion of a grammaticalization change. See Gaeta (2008) for details.…”

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“…I cannot explore the implications of this fact here. For more details see Gaeta (2008Gaeta ( , 2010b.…”

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Multiple sources for the German scandal construction

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2015

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Constituent order in compounds and syntax: typology and diachrony

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2008

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The paper addresses the question of the correspondence between constituent order in compounds and in syntax. While a strictly synchronic perspective does not lead us to any significant generalization as ascertained by Bauer (Language typology and language universals, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 2001), adopting a diachronic point of view allows us to formulate the question in general terms by making reference to the logical problem of what is the transition permitted from a certain synchronic stage to another. On the basis of a large language sample, it is shown that constituent order in compounds heavily relies on syntax. This must be understood in the terms of a diachronic universal reflecting Hawkins' (Word order universals, Academic Press, New York 1983) Double Acquisition Hypothesis. For this specific property of compounds, morphology does not seem to be autonomous from syntax, albeit the relation between morphology and syntax must be thought of as a multi-faceted one.

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