Syntactic variation in the German abroad dialect Riograndese Hunsrik Recipient passive and final infinitive constructions: Methodology and selected results Mateusz Maselko 16th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology∣ Tachikawa, Tokyo (JPN) ∣ August 8th, 2017
Linguistic-historical overview Recipient passive Final infinitive constructions
1824–1935: ACTIVE main clause subjunction “connector” infinitive various waves of [Ich trainiere,] um/für (zu) [gewinnen] migration, Der VaterSU schenkt dem KindIO ein Fahrrad especially from Hunsrück and Ø Syntactic incoherent phrases functioning as a Palatinate subordinate clause, which are introduced with the (Central West RECIPIENT PASSIVE (bekommen/kriegen/erhalten + past participle) Germany) subjunction and end with (zu +) infinitive Hunsrück: transition speech area between Das KindSU bekommt (vom Vater)PP ein Fahrrad geschenkt Ø Semantic function of the subjunction: indicating the West Central German dialects Moselle and purpose or intention of an action Rhine Franconian (Palatine, Hessian) Ø Semantic-pragmatic perspective: focus on the recipient role, i. e. somebody, who either gets one transferred object or gets influenced through one action in a positive or negative way (beneficiary/ Comparison of methods and results maleficiary) and marginalization of the agent’s role Ø Syntactic perspective: change of roles (indirect Translation Photo and Portuguese ➝ phrase object becomes the subject of the passive sentence) Hunsrik complementing
New variety Non-complex phrase, i. e. without other constituent(s): Riograndese Areal-horizontal variation 100% 100% Hunsrik in 80% 80% contact with 60% 60% Portuguese 40% 40%
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0% 0% OC YC YP OC YC YP
Speech FER SE [INF] FER [INF] UM SE [INF] FER SE [INF] FER [INF] UM SE [INF] General research questions Questionnaire production test UM [INF] FER UM SE [INF] ZUM [NOUN] UM [INF] FER UM SE [INF] ZUM [NOUN]
KRIEGEN- 75,0% 74,2% Which relation can be seen passive Complex phrase, i. e. with other constituent(s): Which syntactic 100% 100% between the syntactic phenomena characterize 80% 80% variation of Hunsrik in Brazil 60% 60% Hunsrik and what does its and present West Central 40% 40% areal-horizontal distribution 20% 20% German dialects spoken in the 0% 0% look like? European region of origin? OC YC YP OC YC YP FER SE ... [INF] FER ... SE [INF] FER ... [INF] FER SE ... [INF] FER ... SE [INF] FER ... [INF] UM ... SE [INF] UM ... [INF] FER UM ... SE [INF] UM ... SE [INF] UM ... [INF] FER UM ... SE [INF] To which extend can the ... [FIN] ... [FIN] To which degree can 100% intra-individual and intra- 80% Translation 60% language contact ➝ situative variation data Portuguese 40% Multiple choice phenomena with the Hunsrik results be compared to the 20% Brazilian Portuguese be 0% European variation within Translation Multiple choice noticed? “dialect-standard-spectra”? Varying distribution FER SE ... [INF] FER ... SE [INF] FER ... [INF] UM ... SE [INF] UM ... [INF] OTHERS 100%
80% Steering factors: Which theses can be made 60% valence, lexical with the collected 40% aspect, semantic Areal and social variation information based on the 20% roles, “movement 50 % intra- and inter-individual 40 % 0% direction”, focus, variation, regarding the pouring water taking away Repairing car reading aloud making a move 30 % book letter on Julia tangibility 20 % apparent time-hypothesis? KRIEGEN-passive WERDEN-passive GEBEN-passive 10 % SEIN-passive Active KRIEGEN-active 0 % OC YC YP
FER SE … [INF] FER … SE [INF] FER … [INF] Use in three related varieties UM … SE [INF] UM … [INF] UM SE … [INF] Multivariate research setting UM FER … SE [INF] UM FER … [INF] 100% Hunsrik West Central German Luxembourgish
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2 research stays: 2015, 2016 40%
16 places 20%
questionnaire: 0% six various 190 informants task types
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