Eintrag

Titel

Anaphors in contact. The distribution of intensifiers and reflexives in Amana German

Personen

Michael T. Putnam

Jahr

2011

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Seiten

111 - 128

In

Studies on German-Language Islands

Sprache(n)

Deutsch (Dialekt)

Schlagwörter

Intensivierwörter
Reflexiv
Sprachkontakt

Abstract

This paper presents a novel sketch of a research program into the morpho-syntactic/semantic characteristics of intensifiers and reflexives in a moribund Sprachinsel language, Amana German. As demonstrated in this pilot study, Amana German has (apparently) undergone a shift in the syntactic distributional properties of its intensifier and reflexive inventory. As a result, Amana German in this regard more strongly resembles Dutch and modern English rather than German. Following Gast (2006), I interpret this as a shift involving the morpho-syntactic/semantic realization of recognizing two distributional types of transitive predicates; namely, typically 'other-directed' (e.g. [+Od]) and typically 'self-directed' predicates (e.g. [?Od]).

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/74948