Standard Average European and the Celticity of English intensifiers and reflexives: some considerations and implications
Standard Average European and the Celticity of English intensifiers and reflexives: some considerations and implications
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标准平均欧洲语和英语增强词和反身词的凯尔特语：一些考虑和含义
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2009
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E. Poppe
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我的贡献探讨了潜在的标准平均欧洲（SAE）作为方法的标准评估标准英语（SE），即在何种程度上SE可能已受到影响的岛屿凯尔特语言的凯尔特性的尺度。SAE可以量化SE与其他SAE语言的不同程度，同时显示出与岛屿凯尔特语的相似性，这些语言通常被认为偏离SAE。SAE的概念将被引入，并将分析一个复杂的测试案例：相同的反身代词和加强词的兴起和“不稳定”动词的频率，例如，打破不及物动词和及物动词，在英语中。反身代词和加强词在海岛凯尔特语中是相同的，但在SAE中是不同的类别。根据Haspelmath（1993）的研究，不稳定动词在英语中的使用频率非常高，在岛屿凯尔特语中也非常常见。它将被证明，在SE和海岛凯尔特语的不稳定动词的频率的结果，从这些语言中的反身代词和加强词的身份。由于不稳定动词的出现频率可以被证明是一种类型学上的次要现象，因此，在SE中出现了相同的反身代词和加强词的新系统，从方法论上讲，SE是复杂测试案例中的相关语言子系统，可以提出岛屿凯尔特人的影响，并可以作为支持凯尔特人假设的论据。为了评估凯尔特人的假设，因此，这将是有益的补充SE和海岛凯尔特人与SAE和一般类型学的进一步数据的初步比较时，在审查的语言子系统允许列入这些数据。
My contribution explores the potential of Standard Average European (SAE) as a methodological yardstick for the assessment of the Celticity of Standard English (SE), i.e. the degree to which SE may have been influenced by Insular Celtic languages. SAE allows a quantification of the extent to which SE differs from other SAE languages and at the same time shows similarities with Insular Celtic languages which are generally thought to deviate from SAE. The concept of SAE will be introduced and a complex test case will be analyzed: the rise of identical reflexives and intensifiers and the frequency of ‘labile’ verbs, e.g. to break both intransitive and transitive, in English. Reflexives and intensifiers are identical in Insular Celtic, but separate categories in SAE. According to Haspelmath (1993), labile verbs are unusually frequent in English by SAE standards, and they are also very frequent in Insular Celtic. It will be shown that the frequency of labile verbs in SE and Insular Celtic results from the identity of reflexives and intensifiers in these languages. Since the frequency of labile verbs thus can be shown to be a typologically secondary phenomenon, it is the rise of the new system of identical reflexives and intensifiers in SE which is methodologically the relevant linguistic subsystem within the complex test case for which Insular Celtic influence can be proposed and which can be adduced as an argument in favor of the Celtic hypothesis. For the assessment of the Celtic hypothesis, it will therefore be rewarding to complement the initial comparison of SE and Insular Celtic with further data from SAE and general typology whenever the linguistic subsystems under scrutiny allows the inclusion of such data.