Relevanzgesteuerter morphologischer Umbau im Frühneuhochdeutschen

Nübling, Damaris; Dammel, Antje

doi:10.1515/bgsl.2004.177

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“…Hence, a vowel in the infinitive corresponds to a qualitatively different vowel in the preterite and past participle respectively, compare sing-sang-sung or drive-drove-driven (for German see Nowak 2015). In contrast, the umlaut relationship is still transparent -at least in German 5 -and can be described in terms of palatalization: a always corresponds to ä, o to ö, and so on (see Nübling 2001b;Nübling and Dammel 2004). Consequently, we can/may assume that an analogical extension of umlaut comparison to new adjectives in Modern German is best described in terms of a source-oriented generalization.…”

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Klar – klärer – am klärsten? Umlaut comparison as a doubtful case in contemporary German

Nowak

2017

Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting

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The present paper addresses doubtful cases concerning the use of umlaut in the adjectival comparison of contemporary German: bang 'anxious' -banger/bänger -am bangsten/bängsten. It aims to shed light on the concrete distribution of this variation, i.e. the preference for one of the variants. Corpus-based analyses will show that the adjectives under discussion are not equally affected by umlaut variation: some are (surprisingly) stable (e.g., gesund 'healthy'), whereas many others have a clear preference (i.e. > 70%) for non-umlauting forms (e.g., blass 'pale', nass 'wet'). Interestingly, a few of the supposedly stable cases appear to have at least some non-umlauting forms (e.g., krank 'ill', nah 'near', grob 'rough'). Even more interesting (but still comparatively rare) is the use of umlaut in conceptual orality contexts with adjectives that exhibit no umlaut comparison in Standard German, e.g., klar 'clear', falsch 'wrong', doof 'stupid'. As will be demonstrated, these doubtful cases reflect a centuries-old and still ongoing reorganization process within umlaut comparison. It will turn out that a complex network of interacting factors such as token frequency, phonological schemas, and morphological complexity is at work.

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Klar – klärer – am klärsten? Umlaut comparison as a doubtful case in contemporary German

Nowak

2017

Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting

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“…Highly relevant grammatical categories such as tense for verbs or number for nouns are rarely affected by intraparadigmatic leveling compared to less relevant categories such as person/number or case. Thus, the 2nd person singular marking in the preterite of strong verbs realized through introflection (ablaut and umlaut) was leveled out, whereas the vowel alternations expressing tense were preserved, as in singen ‘sing’ : sang- ‘preterite stem’ versus süngest ‘2 sg ’ »sang(e)st , but still singen–sang–gesungen ‘sing–sang–sung’ (see Nübling & Dammel 2004).…”

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REVIEWS - Analogy and Morphological Change. By David Fertig. (Edinburgh Historical Linguistics). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. viii, 160. Paperback. £24.99.

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2016

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“…logie bekannt ist, dem so genannten Relevanzprinzip(Bybee 1985;Nübling/ Dammel 2004). Dieses Prinzip besagt, dass Informationen, die das Verb stark in seiner Bedeutung beeinflussen, auch formal stärker mit dem Verb fusionieren sollten.…”

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Betrachtet man "Verfallserscheinungen" des Verbalsystems wie Übergänge stark > schwach, so zeigt sich, dass hier weder Rezenz noch Verfall zu konstatieren ist. Mit diachroner und analytischer Tiefe offenbart sich ein gestaffelter, systematischer Komplexitätsabbau, der seine Hochphase im Frühneuhochdeutschen hat und sich schlecht mit der Passivität und Chaos implizierenden Verfallsmetapher verträgt: Reorganisation statt Dekadenz. Entwicklungen wie der präteritale Numerusausgleich (ich sang -wir sungen > ich sang -wir sangen) oder die Herausbildung der vereinfachten Ablautalternanz X-o-o sind nie nur Komplexitätsreduktion, sondern immer auch Systema tisierung; sie bremsen Verfall. Dabei ist der Gewinn an Systematik i.d.R. nicht Normautoritäten geschuldet, sondern ihm liegen sprachsystematische, kognitive und frequenzielle Faktoren zugrunde.

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Relevanzgesteuerter morphologischer Umbau im Frühneuhochdeutschen

Cited by 6 publications

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Klar – klärer – am klärsten? Umlaut comparison as a doubtful case in contemporary German

Klar – klärer – am klärsten? Umlaut comparison as a doubtful case in contemporary German

REVIEWS - Analogy and Morphological Change. By David Fertig. (Edinburgh Historical Linguistics). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. viii, 160. Paperback. £24.99.

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