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Exaptation in the nominal inflection of Early Middle English dialects

早期中古英语方言名义词形变化的扩展

基本信息

批准号：
353495999
负责人：
Dr. Raffaela Baechler
金额：
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依托单位：
Linguistics and English Language
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Fellowships
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2016-12-31 至 2018-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/353495999?language=en
关键词：
Exaptation nominal inflection Early Middle

项目摘要

1. Goals of the projectThe project aims to investigate exaptation of inflected adjectives, demonstrative and relative pronouns, as well as definite articles in Early Middle English dialects. The project is split into two parts.The main question of Part I is: How do the various Early Middle English dialects exapt the debris of a formerly gendered case system? Thus, it tackles language-internal questions on morphology and syntax, such as which forms are exapted and what they encode or whether there are positions in a clause where inflected forms are preserved longer (or even exapted) than in other positions.Part II surveys areal and sociolinguistic questions. Firstly, the differences and similarities between exapted systems of different Early Middle English dialects may be explained by sociolinguistic factors, e.g. contact and isolation. Secondly, the project aims to answer the question of whether exapted forms spread or whether similar new systems emerge independently from one another.2. Innovativeness of the projectPrevious works on Middle English mainly investigated how one part of speech was exapted based on one or very few manuscripts. Furthermore, previous research surveyed the phenomenon of exaptation by analysing individual selected instances of exaptation, and thus in a more general way.This project tackles the phenomenon of exaptation in a broader and more focused way at the same time. On the one hand, different manuscripts of different dialects and different Early Middle English periods will be analysed and compared. On the other hand, the data is exclusively based on Early Middle English, thus on one language in a defined period. This allows for new questions on exaptation, as presented in the previous section. Thus, this project is a comprehensive and comparative survey on exaptation and the findings may contribute to theories on language change.3. Research approach and its implementationThis is an interdisciplinary linguistic project bringing together formal linguistics, historical and areal linguistics as well as sociolinguistics. Methodologically, this is a quantitative corpus based project. The data is based on the LAEME (A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English) Corpus of Tagged Texts which is developed straight from the manuscripts.

1.该项目的目标该项目旨在研究早期中古英语方言中的屈折形容词，指示代词和关系代词以及定冠词的翻译。这个项目分为两个部分，第一部分的主要问题是：早期中古英语的各种方言是如何扩展先前性别格系统的碎片的？因此，它解决了语言内部的问题形态和句法，如哪些形式是exapted和他们编码或是否有位置在一个子句中的屈折形式被保留更长的时间（甚至exapted）比在其他positions.Part II调查地域和社会语言学的问题。首先，中古英语早期不同方言的扩展系统之间的差异和相似之处可以用社会语言学因素来解释，如接触和隔离。其次，该项目旨在回答是否exapted形式传播或类似的新系统是否独立出现的问题。本课题的创新性以往的中古英语研究主要是考察一个词类是如何根据一个或很少几个手稿被翻译出来的。此外，以前的研究调查的exaptation现象，通过分析个别选定的exaptation的情况下，因此在一个更普遍的方式。本项目处理exaptation现象在更广泛和更集中的方式在同一时间。一方面，不同方言和不同的早期中古英语时期的不同手稿将进行分析和比较。另一方面，数据完全基于早期中古英语，因此在一个确定的时期内的一种语言。这允许在前一节中提出的关于适应性扩展的新问题。因此，本研究是一个全面的、比较性的语言外适应研究，其研究结果有助于语言变化理论的发展.研究方法及其实施这是一个跨学科的语言学项目，汇集了形式语言学，历史和地域语言学以及社会语言学。从方法论上讲，这是一个基于语料库的定量项目。这些数据是基于LAEME（早期中古英语语言地图集）标记文本语料库，该语料库直接从手稿中开发出来。