Eintrag

Titel

Synchrony and diachrony of verb clusters in Pennsylvania Dutch

Personen

Mark L. Louden

Jahr

2011

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Seiten

165 - 186

In

Studies on German-Language Islands

Sprache(n)

Deutsch (Dialekt)

Schlagwörter

Dialekt
Sprachkontakt
Verb

Abstract

This paper presents the major synchronic facts about verb clusters in modern Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania German) and indicates how they have developed historically. Although Pennsylvania Dutch is descended from primarily Palatine German dialects, the behavior of verb clusters in the modern language is distinct from what is found in European German dialects. Focusing on three- and four-verb clusters in subordinate clauses, it is observed that Pennsylvania Dutch observes a strict rule whereby a maximum of one lexical verb may occur within a clause; additional lexical verbs are located to the right of the clause periphery. The analysis presumes that non-lexical verbs in verb clusters, specifically the finite auxiliary hawwe 'have' and a non-finite modal, form a single syntactic unit.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/74950