Borrowing of Argument Structure in Contact Situations (BASICS): the case of medieval English und French influence

借用接触情境中的论证结构（基础）：中世纪英语和法语影响的案例

• 批准号: 265711632
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Achim Stein
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl Anglistische Linguistik/ Diachronie (Anglistik IV)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/265711632?language=en
• 关键词: Borrowing; Argument; Structure; Contact; Situations

The original BASICS proposal was based on the hypothesis that structural borrowing in situations of intense contact has effects on the recipient language and that these effects can be identified in a diachronic analysis of the argument structure of verbs. At the end of phase 1, our previous findings have not only confirmed this hypothesis to some degree but have also shed new light on the rise and development of a number of grammatical structures of English. Despite these encouraging results, we have good reasons to continue this project: first, one-directional borrowing does not capture the complexity of the contact situation and the phenomena we have come across, nor does the term borrowing. We have dealt with different types of copying, and found that copying is bidirectional. Therefore Anglo-French as a contact variety needs to be investigated in greater depth, and our new cooperation with the Anglo-Norman Dictionary project enables us to do so. Second, many phenomena only surface in diachronic verb-related analyses, and due to the difficulty of lemmatising ME verbs we are only at the beginning of the ‘harvesting period’. We are convinced that the research in phase 2 will allow us not only to corroborate our previous findings, and to provide a new and much clearer picture of this particular historical contact situation, but also to make a significant contribution to theoretical aspects of contact linguistics and language change, i.e. to propose how contact and its structural effects can be modelled. Finally we think we have found the ideal team of researchers to investigate this highly specialized domain further, and that it is very likely that we can deliver crucial results on the empirical and theoretical level only by the end of phase 2.

最初的BASICS建议是基于这样一个假设，即在激烈接触的情况下，结构借用对接受者的语言产生影响，这些影响可以在动词论元结构的历时分析中确定。在第一阶段结束时，我们的研究结果不仅在一定程度上证实了这一假设，而且还为英语中一些语法结构的兴起和发展提供了新的线索。尽管取得了这些令人鼓舞的成果，我们仍然有充分的理由继续这个项目：首先，单向借用不能捕捉到接触情况的复杂性和我们遇到的现象，术语借用也不能。我们已经讨论了不同类型的复制，并发现复制是双向的。因此，英语法语作为一种接触语变体需要更深入地研究，我们与盎格鲁-诺曼词典项目的新合作使我们能够这样做。第二，许多现象只在历时动词相关分析中浮出水面，由于ME动词的词形化困难，我们只是处于“收获期”的开始。我们相信，第二阶段的研究将使我们不仅能够证实我们以前的研究结果，并提供一个新的和更清晰的画面，这一特定的历史接触的情况下，但也作出了重大贡献的接触语言学和语言变化的理论方面，即提出如何接触及其结构效应可以建模。最后，我们认为我们已经找到了理想的研究团队来进一步研究这个高度专业化的领域，并且很可能只有在第二阶段结束时，我们才能在经验和理论层面上取得关键成果。