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

最初的BASICS建议是基于这样的假设：在密切接触的情况下，结构借用会对接收语产生影响，而这些影响可以通过对动词论点结构的历时分析来识别。在第一阶段结束时，我们之前的发现不仅在一定程度上证实了这一假设，而且还为英语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，但我们有充分的理由继续这个项目：首先，单向借用并不能反映接触情况的复杂性和我们遇到的现象，借用一词也不能反映这种复杂性。我们处理了不同类型的复制，发现复制是双向的。因此，英法作为一种交流语言需要进行更深入的研究，而我们与盎格鲁-诺曼词典项目的新合作使我们能够这样做。其次，许多现象只是在历时动词相关分析中才显现出来，而且由于动词词源化的困难，我们只是处于“收获期”的开始。我们相信，第二阶段的研究不仅可以证实我们之前的发现，并为这一特殊的历史接触情况提供一个新的、更清晰的图景，而且还可以为接触语言学和语言变化的理论方面做出重大贡献，即提出如何建立接触及其结构效应的模型。最后，我们认为我们已经找到了一个理想的研究团队来进一步研究这个高度专业化的领域，而且很有可能只有在第二阶段结束时，我们才能在实证和理论层面上得出关键的结果。

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.