dc.contributor.author
Schirakowski, Barbara
dc.date.accessioned
2023-08-07T08:35:39Z
dc.date.available
2023-08-07T08:35:39Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/39396
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-39113
dc.description.abstract
The effects of language contact on semantic and syntactic properties of verbs can be considered as not yet extensively studied. This contribution is concerned with French as a typical verb-framed language that cannot freely combine manner verbs with result-denoting arguments within the VP. Drawing on creation events, the study explores if restrictions can loosen, and lexicalization preferences change when French is in contact to a satellite-framed language like English. Judgment data from bilingual speakers of Canadian French (CaFr) are compared to data from speakers of Hexagonal French (HFr). The analysis addresses how selective copying from English is relevant for the acceptability of different VPs and considers how the factors of individual and social language dominance might influence the judgments within the CaFr group. The results show that French manner verbs and direct objects can be coerced into creation readings in both test groups as long as only the selectional restrictions of a particular verb have to be adapted. When, however, a general constraint of French has to be overridden to arrive at a creation reading, acceptability is higher in the CaFr group, who can resort to combinatorial copying from English. Furthermore, VPs in which manner is not lexicalized in the verb are somewhat more accepted in the HFr group than in the CaFr group. Within the CaFr group, certain cases of satellite framing are judged somewhat better by speakers from an English dominant region, while VPs without a manner verb reach slightly higher scores among speakers from Quebec. It is thus shown how structural and speaker-related factors can affect the acceptability of event descriptions in language contact.
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dc.format.extent
29 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Canadian French
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dc.subject
judgment data
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dc.subject
linguistic dominance
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dc.subject
satellite-framed
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dc.subject
selective copying
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dc.subject.ddc
400 Sprache::440 Französisch, romanische Sprachen allgemein::440 Romanische Sprachen; Französisch
dc.title
The VP in language contact: on creation event lexicalization in Canadian French
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1515/flin-2023-2020
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Folia Linguistica
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
2
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
481
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
509
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
57
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2023-2020
refubium.affiliation
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Romanische Philologie
refubium.funding
de Gruyter
refubium.note.author
Die Publikation wurde aus Open Access Publikationsgeldern der Freien Universität Berlin gefördert.
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.issn
0165-4004
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1614-7308