Innovative constructions in Dutch Turkish: An assessment of ongoing contact-induced change
Innovative constructions in Dutch Turkish: An assessment of ongoing contact-induced change
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DOI：
10.1017/s1366728908003441
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Backus, A. D.
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作者：
Dogruoz, A. Seza;Backus, A. D.
荷兰的土耳其语（NL-土耳其语）与土耳其的土耳其语（TR-土耳其语）听起来“不同”（非常规）。我们声称这是由于结构接触引起的变化，然而，这种变化位于从荷兰语复制的特定词汇复杂单元内。本文通过分析在荷兰双语土耳其语社区和土耳其单语社区收集的口语语料库，调查了荷兰语土耳其语的结构变化。分析表明，在目前的接触阶段，NL-土耳其语并没有复制荷兰语语法本身，而是将词汇复杂的单个单元翻译成土耳其语。荷兰语单位与其土耳其语单位之间的感知语义等效性在此翻译过程中起着至关重要的作用。与预期相反，TR-土耳其语数据也包含非常规单位，尽管它们类型不同，而且频率远低于 NL-土耳其语。我们得出的结论是，单个NL-土耳其语单元的同步变化可以包含未来句法变化的种子，只有在变化单元的类型和标记频率增加后才会可见。
Turkish as spoken in the Netherlands (NL-Turkish) sounds "different" (unconventional) to Turkish speakers in Turkey (TR-Turkish). We claim that this is due to structural contact-induced change that is, however, located within specific lexically complex units copied from Dutch. This article investigates structural change in NL-Turkish through analyses of spoken corpora collected in the bilingual Turkish community in the Netherlands and in a monolingual community in Turkey. The analyses reveal that at the current stage of contact, NL-Turkish is not copying Dutch syntax as such, but rather translates lexically complex individual units into Turkish. Perceived semantic equivalence between Dutch units and their Turkish equivalents plays a crucial role in this translation process. Counter to expectations, the TR-Turkish data also contained unconventional units, though they differed in type, and were much less frequent than those in NL-Turkish. We conclude that synchronic variation in individual NL-Turkish units can contain the seeds of future syntactic change, which will only be visible after an increase in the type and token frequency of the changing units.