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Abstract
To date, there has been limited empirical research on complementizer agreement (CA). We investigate CA drawing on a corpus of 144 speakers from 13 locations across Austria that was elicited through computer supported language production experiments and recorded in conversations. We investigate the linguistic factors that govern the occurrence of CA, as well as its areal distribution. We further explore the role of CA in speakers' linguistic repertoires. The study finds evidence for the hypothesis that the (non-)occurrence of CA is strongly dependent on the structure of its hosting C-elements and finds regional patterns. It also identifies CA as a phenomenon which speakers place in a non-standard register. We use the collected data to test a theory of the emergence of CA from clitic pronouns for Bavarian varieties of German.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 322-369 |
Number of pages | 48 |
Journal | Linguistic Variation |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 6 Aug 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2021 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 602014 German studies
Keywords
- complementizer agreement
- dialectology
- experimental linguistics
- grammaticalization
- linguistic repertoires
- methodology
- morphology
- syntax
- Complementizer agreement
- Methodology
- Linguistic repertoires
- Dialectology
- Experimental linguistics
- Morphology
- Grammaticalization
- Syntax
Projects
- 1 Active
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DiÖ: SFB ‘German in Austria. Variation - Contact - Perception’
Lenz, A., Budin, G., Elspass, S., Newerkla, S. & Ziegler, A.
1/01/16 → 30/06/26
Project: Research funding